Operation High Jump – Admiral Byrd’s Fleet
Operation Highjump, the largest expedition mounted to the Antarctic, is claimed to have been sent to wipe out the Nazi presence.
Operation Highjump (OpHjp), officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-47, was a United States Navy operation organized by Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
to train personnel and test material in the frigid zones
to consolidate and extend American sovereignty over the largest practical area of the Antarctic continent
to determine the feasibility of establishing and maintaining bases in the Antarctic and to investigate possible base sites
to develop techniques for establishing and maintaining air bases on the ice, with particular attention to the later applicability of such techniques to operations in interior Greenland. (where, it was then believed, physical and climatic conditions resembled those in Antarctica)
to amplify existing knowledge of hydrographic, geographic, geological, meteorological and electromagnetic conditions in the area.
However, their choice of ships and fleet size is extremely suspicious. The actual fleet included the following ships:
Eastern Group
Commanded by Captain George J. Dufek
Seaplane Tender Pine Island
Tanker Canisteo
Destroyer Brownson
Western Group
Seaplane Tender Currituck
Tanker Cacapon
Destroyer Henderson
Central Group
Comms-ship Mount Olympus
Icebreaker Burton Island
Icebreaker Northwind
Supplyship Yancey
Supplyship Merrick
Submarine Sennet
The aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea also participated, although it was not assigned to any of the groups.
Understandably the need for supply ships, seaplane tenders, ice breakers and communication ships are necessary for such an operation but the use of 2 destroyers, an aircraft carrier and a submarine is somewhat dubious if all they set out to do is carry out surveys.
Operation Highjump
Many conspiracy articles and discussions examine a postwar encounter reported near a British Antarctic camp with uniformed Germans in an ice cave; this when considered in the context that several German U boats, a large amount of building supplies and German scientists identified by Operation Paperclip
An esoteric Hitlerist legend recounts that Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide in 1945, but fled to Argentina, then to an SS base
Operation Highjump remains one of the few post war operations with documents still “classified” by the military.
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ADMIRAL RICHARD BYRD’S “OPERATION HIGH JUMP” On January of 1946 around 7:00 A.M In the darkness, aboard the USS Brownson (DD868) Naval Destroyer, we observed the following: ON THE HORIZON, A BRIGHT COLORLESS LIGHT. WE THOUGHT IT WAS ANOTHER SHIP. WE WERE BELOW ANTARTIC CIRCLE IN UNCHARTED WATERS. OUR RADAR WAS ACTIVATED TO NO AVAIL. I AND MY SHIPMATES IN THE PILOT HOUSE PORT SIDE OBSERVED FOR SEVERAL MINUTES, THE BRIGHT LIGHTS THAT ASCENDED ABOUT 45 DEGREES INTO THE SKY VERY QUICKLY. WE COULDN’T ID THE LIGHTS BECAUSE OUR RADAR WAS LIMITED TO 250 MILES IN A STRAIGHT LINE. OUR QUARTER MASTER JOHN DRISCOLL RECORDED THIS IN OUR LOG. RADIOMAN JOHN P. SZELWACH. (ON WEDDLE SEA, CHARCOT ISLAND, BELOW THE ANTARTIC CIRCLE).
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Dude, CAPS MUHFUKKUH! COULDN’T READ PAST YOUR CAPS! GOT AS FAR AS ADMIRAL AND YOU LOST ME!
Navy protocol requires writing in all caps in official documents and logs due to the fact that there are so many different lowercase writing styles. Quote from a log would therefore be in all caps. Jus’ sayin’.
radar 250 miles in a straight line?
Which set was that?
the first comment looks nothing like anythingthat would ever be written in a Bridge Log.
The whole issue with CAPS should NOT bother anyone. Maybe, just maybe, the general netiquette has evolved to mean that caps is the same as “yelling” but it is NOT the same. IF, in fact, as per the guy who posted in caps, he was a member of the expedition or similar, the time frame he served in likely meant that it was normal to type orders, messages, even logs in all caps. I served in the US Naval Reserve before transferring to the US Army (special forces, and other assignments). During basic training we had to record logs to get us used to the very specific format, and ALL LOGS were in BLOCK CAPS, and edits had to be made a certain way (single line drawn through so original error could still be read, but initials, dated, timed as to error, etc.). When I was new online, so long ago, back in the BBS era, early 1990s, it was common to find people who wrote all caps in their system entries, so the fact that some people seem to have developed what I can only call a psychological hangup about caps is obscuring what seems to be a very interesting, possible eye witness testimony regarding an actual encounter on the topic in question. CAPS or NOT, I would be MUCH more interested in that. For the guy who said he could not get past caps, that seems to be the case, and how foolish to focus on the format of the message versus the CONTENT of the message, which is critical. Maybe, perhaps, a bit of tolerance in terms of style is warranted. Not everyone online today has knowledge, nor common agreement, that an all caps entry is “unreadable” let alone impolite. I remember when an emoticon was an innovation, and I think it is FAR better to access the content of a message rather than turning off.
As far as Highjump is concerned, I am curious as to whether or not their was a classified, secret, conspiratorial aspect to the mission that was not disclosed broadly. Eye witness testimony by the rare, older, plainly retired individuals who might have participated is crucial, not just for finding out secret aspects, but the disclosed ones . A video on Youtube showed a 300 square mile region ice and snow free, with lots of lakes, average water temperature of 38 degrees (I think Celsius perhaps, not sure), from hot springs. Most importantly, surveys disclosed per the narrative said loads of strategic minerals (I would imagine gold, silver, copper, titanium, etc.), AND “coal piled up on the lake edges” which would indicate several things to my un informed brain (re Antarctica at least). 1) It once was very warm and supported tons of vegetation and such to allow coal to form and become so prominent that it is available in plain sight in large quantities (and what more might be obtained by digging!), 2) What else might be available with proper exploration? Nazis or not, secret bases or not, I am convinced that much may be learned about human history because I think either Antarctica was ice free during human civilization (Atlantis days) OR Antarctica was in an ice free position (according to some, crustal displacement theory shifted the continent to its current location, and under that 1 mile of ice glacier is the remains of our most ancient civilizations). I do not know, but I think there is much to learn. Those of us NOT arctic scientists down on the few bases sited and available might consider listening to the eye witness testimony of anyone who has been down there. It is worth listening to.