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Philip K Swartz - 1960-61 - South Pole Station - Antarcticans Database Project more

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One of the support tasks of the Navy crew was to provide food, but everyone (station personnel and visitors alike) were expected to share in the mess cook detail. Left to right are BU1 (Builder First Class) Palazewski, next a member of the summer scientific crew, then Jim Burnham (wintering over member of the scientific crew), CMH3 (Construction Mechanic Third Class) Jose Gomez (with back to camera), & CS1 (Commissaryman First Class) Charlie Wegner (cook). Charlie kept a calendar marking off each day when he first got up in the morning - he figured getting up was the worst part of any day and the rest was easy.

Pictures from Philip K Swartz, overwinter, South Pole, 60-61