REAR ADMIRAL GEORGE DUFEK - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 273385
Price: $160.00
GEORGE DUFEK
The seaman who made the first air landing at the South Pole inscribes this black and
white photo to a fan
Inscribed Photograph Signed: "To/ Danny Franklin/ with all good wishes/ from his friend/
George Dufek/ Rear Admiral/ U.S. Navy". B/w, 8x10. Rear Admiral George J. Dufek
(1903-1977) effectively commanded Operation Deep Freeze, a series of Antarctic projects
conducted in 1956 under the nominal command of veteran explorer Admiral Richard Bird.
Operation Deep Freeze built a U.S. airbase at McMurdo Sound. Dufek flew with the
crew of a transport aircraft to the South Pole, becoming the first man to set foot there
since Richard Scott's ill-fated expedition of 1912. The flight was a reconnaissance mission to
determine the feasibility of putting landing facilities at the Pole itself, but Dufek made the call
that conditions there were too extreme. Fine condition.
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