Operation Highjump was a United States Navy battle directed in Antarctica from 1946-47, it was the single most noteworthy exertion in the southern most landmass to the present day. The mission was, and keeps on being right up 'til the present time, the biggest Antarctic voyage ever attempted. It was directed by the Arctic pioneer Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, and concerned 13 vessels, 23 air ship and alongside a military power of 4,700 men. The trusted mission was to photo, outline and broadly investigate the solidified mainland of Antartica, preceding some other power doing as such.
The mission was of a grouped nature and was primarily a military activity with military faculty. Notwithstanding, it additionally included logical associations involving the US National IGY Committee and the regarded National Program which was all the more quickly worried with the mapping of Antarctica to record viewpoint US regional cases. The first code name distributed by the Navy to the Antarctic mission was Project Longhaul, expressive of the protracted logistics channel amongst the United States and Antarctica despite the fact that which was in this manner adjusted to the now perceived codename of Operation Highjump.
The mission targets were for the dozen boats and a few thousand men to explore their way to the Antarctic edge to prepare specialists and trial materials in the solidified districts furthermore to fortify and create American ward over the best workable locale of the Antarctic landmass. Moreover, they were to decide the practicality of setting up and supplying bases in the Antarctic and to investigate potential base destinations combined with a need to propel strategies for establishing and caring for air bases on the ice.
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