1950's Antarctic Military Lot 200 4x5 photos Coastguard Cutter Eastwind W279

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1950's Historic Antarctic Coast guard Photographic  grouping of  Coast guard Cutter Eastwind
This grouping was purchased at an estate sale, the paper info that came with it  show that Russell Cluese (278-065) EN3 served on the ship.
200 total  4 x5 photos and a half dozen smaller ones
8x10 of the ship
8x10 of another
boat
8x10 of the crew
40 of the 4x5's are 4 to a page on full page sheets(10 pages of 4 each that were not cut out of the pages)
Besides photos:
2 cards  showing crossed the Arctic Circle  in  1952 and 1954
2 plastic USS Wyandot Antarctica 1955 1956 plastic cards with a penguin on them (thick plastic) 1 7/8" by 3 1/2"
Liberty pass 1948 October issued to Cluese CGC Bering Strait
New Paul Jones  cards
Cabaret Argentina Beside Hostel Metropole
Nanook  Companion of ye Polar Key: dimensions  3 3/4" by 4 3/4", for going beyond Ultima Thule, to country of Key Bird aboard Eastwinf(on photographic paper, 1952(picture of polar bear on top of world)
A couple of  certificates that may be unrelated to this group but was mixed in with it, captured enemy equiptment documents., isssued to Irving Blum
Incredible photographic history of this Coast Guard Cutter.
The person who took the images was a good photographer, these are really nice images in my opinion ad I have handled hundreds of thousands of vintage photos.
Images of other boats: W393, W279, PA239 (USS Glynn)
Other  photo topics:
#261 Navy plane being hoisted from ship crane, other helicopter views showing removal or take off from on board ship HTL-1 U.S. Coast Guard 2460 and other helicopter views with
floats
.Unloading equipment( and working on board ship, my best guess is
in Greenland) dozers,
helicopters, small boats. Equator or Antarctic ceremony, Bustoing through ice ,
Crew shots, civilians on board ship taking a meal(U.S), warm eweather shots with Island girls and people scenery shots, all kinds of images of the boat, goings on in the boat, officers, daily life routine stuff, Eskimos in boats, sled dogs,  Polar Bear, Penguin images.
Following information was gathered from Wikipedia:
USCGC Eastwind (WAGB-279)
was Wind class ice breaker built for the United States Coast Guard. Completed in time to see action in World War II, she continued in USCG service under the same name until decommissioned in 1968
Eastwind
was the second of five Wind-class of icebreakers built for the United States Coast Guard. Her keel was laid down on 23 June 1942at Western Pipe & Steel Co. She was launched on 6 February 1943 and commissioned on 3 June 1944.
Her hull was of unprecedented strength and structural integrity, with a relatively short length in proportion to the great power developed, a cut away forefoot, rounded bottom, and fore, aft and side heeling tanks. Diesel electric machinery was chosen for its controllability and resistance to damage.
Eastwind
, along with the other Wind-class icebreakers, was heavily armed for an icebreaker due to her design being crafted during World War II. Her main battery consisted of two twin-mount 5 in (130 mm) deck guns. Her anti-aircraft weaponry consisted of three quad-mounted Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft autocannons and six Oerlikon 20 mm autocannons. She also carried six K-gun depth charge projectors and a Hedgehog as anti-submarine weapons. After the war her aft 5” mount was replace by a helicopter deck, by 1951 her forward mount had also been removed
Eastwind
ferried 200 US army troops which captured the last German weather station in Greenland
Edelweiss II
, on 4 October 1944. She also seized the German trawler
Externsteine
, which was ressuplying the base.
Externsteine
was later commissioned in the US Coast Guard as USCGC
Eastbreeze
.
In 1952, during an Arctic Cruise, for the first time were launched stratospheric balloons from the deck of the ship. The balloon carried scientific instruments to perform cosmic ray studies and rockets to be fired once in the stratosphere (Rockoons). Captain Oliver A. Peterson, Commanding.
In 1956 and 1956 she participated in Antarctic exploration activities. Captain Oliver A. Peterson, Commanding
In 1952, during an Arctic Cruise, for the first time were launched stratospheric balloons from the deck of the ship. The balloon carried scientific instruments to perform cosmic ray studies and rockets to be fired once in the stratosphere (Rockoons). Captain Oliver A. Peterson, Commanding.
In 1956 and 1956 she participated in Antarctic exploration activities. Captain Oliver A. Peterson, Commanding
I took a bunch of the pictures you are looking at,  with my camera, and it was difficult to avoid camera glare. Bright spots on the images are from my camera glare, not the images themselves, and any black dot you see is from my camera lens, not ht image itself.
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