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Operation Deep Freeze
Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in 1955–56, followed by "Operation Deep Freeze II", "Operation Deep Freeze III", and so on. (There was an initial operation before Admiral Richard Byrd proposed 'Deep Freeze'). Given the continuing and constant US presence in Antarctica since that date, "Operation Deep Freeze" has come to be used as a general term for
well as land-based R4D Dakotas (Dakota, from the acronym "DACoTA" for "Douglas Aircraft Company Transport Aircraft", was the designation used by the United States Navy to refer to the Douglas C-47 Skytrain). By the time Operation Highjump was concluded in late February 1947, the team had mapped about of coastline and of the interior of the continent.
History Operation Deep Freeze I and II.
On 1 February, Task Force 43 was activated to plan Antarctic operations scheduled to begin in the fall under the