Icebreakers Neal
For Dewiine Site
The Burton Island, a heavy
Navy icebreaker, and the U. S.
Coast Guard cutter Stbris left last
week for the Arctic on a resupply
mission of the Defense Early
Warning outposts along the Alas
kan and Canadian coast. Both
ships were here for a week prior
to their departure.
The Storis is a familiar sight
around Kodiak and westward
where it conducts search and res
cue missions during normal opera
tions. Commanded by Commander
W. C. Foster, USCG, of Kodiak,
the light icebreaker has been as
signed to Navy control for the
duration of the Arctic operations.
The Storis was one of the ships
which circumnavigated the North
A merican continent by way of the
Arctic.
Each ship carries two Navy heli
copters from Helicopter Utility
Squadron ONE. at Ream Field,
Imperial Beach, California. Heli
copters range for miles ahead of
the ship to find leads in the ice
which cannot be seen by lookouts
on the vessel.
The two ships are enroute to
Point Barrow, Alaska’s northern
most projection into the Arctic.
From Point Barrow, the icebreak
ers will make their way to
Amundsen Gulf, 150 miles east of
MacKenzie River in Canada. The
Storis will remain in this area for
two months to assist Canadian
Transportation Forces in reach
ing DEW Line sites facing
Amundsen Gulf and the Beaufort
Sea.
The Burton Island will return
to Point Barrow and begin its hea
vy icebreaking duties as American
supply ships begin arriving from
west coast ports.
Whle in the Arctic, both ships
will put to test new operational
techniques that will either be
adopted or discarded in future op
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erations. At the same time, exper
imental devices and newly devel
oped cold weather equipment will
undergo, trying tests under actual
Arctic conditions.
In command of the operation is
Rear Admiral A. W. McKechnie,
USN, Commander Alaskan Sea
Frontier, whose headquarters are
here. The admiral and his staff
planned the operation as carefully
as a wartime maneuver, knowing
the Arctic can be a formidable ad
versary.
The enemy in this case, however,
is ice—and lots of it. The Polar
ice-pack that grips Alaska's north
ern shores 10 months of the year
relaxes somewhat during August
and September. It is only during
this dangerously brief period that
the thin-skinned ships with their
vital cargoes of food and oil can
push through the rotting ice to the
DEW Line sites. Commercial ships
will be used this year, sailing un
der government contracts.
Preparations for the icebreak
er’s entry into the ice-pack above
the Bering Sea have been under
way for more than a month. Navy
patrol planes have been flying ice
reconnaisance patrols off the
northern half of Alaska’s 33,000
miles of coastline, with'trained ob
servers aboard — some from the
Fleet Weather Central at Kodiak
and Spine from the Navy Hydro
graphic Office in Washington, D.C.
Their job has two purposes. One
is to map the northerly retreat of
the Polar ice-pack during the
summer months. The other is to
devise new techniques that will
improve weather and ice forecast
ing above the Arctic Circle.
P2V Neptunes from Patrol
Squadron Nine, based at Kodiak, ‘
has the job of getting the obser
vers- over the ice-pack. The Navy
squadron flies from Eileson Air
Force Base at Fairbanks for the
long Arctic survey flights.
Straight Dope
On Record Bear
A live bear, whether big or lit
tle, when seen from a hill top or
an airplane, may excite the ad
miration and interest of the be
holder, and will cause his blood
stream to run a little faster:
But when dead, particularly if
he is a record bear, the interest
is still there. Especially interest
ed is the hunter, the guide, friends
of both, and the vital statistics de
partment, in this case the Boone
and Crockett Club.
All the above is in reference
to an article that appeared in the
KODIAK MIRROR June 21, in
which we gave credit to one of
guide Alf Madsen’s hunters as
having won the 1956-57 Boone and
Crockett award. The article in
question was based on informa
tion furnished us, but to set the
record straight, we went to the
Boone and Crockett Club for the
answer. H<sre are the facts as
furnished us:
The first prize award went to a
bear killed by Dave Connor, Hold
en, Mass., and his guides were
Bill Pinnell and Morris Talifson.
The bear scored 30 2/16.
The second prize award went
to a bear killed by John M. Tait,
Cincinnati, Ohio, and his guide
Friday
Game Night
8:30 p.m.
at
V.F.W.
was Alf Madsen. The bear scored
30 1/16.
The third prize award went to
a bear, killed by William D.
Holmes and Alf Madsen was the
guide. The bear scored 29 12/16.
Three Honorahle Mention
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awards were given. Maxwell and
Howe were the guides on one and
Pinnell and Talifson were the
guides on the other two.
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