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Editor says, what if Admiral Byrd's final mission really had a military objective? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s).
The fighting in Europe is finished, but the war is far from over because the Fuhrer has fled to Antartica. Cornered like a rat in his frozen Bechtesgarten, the Allies need to destroy his secret base before he can fight back with his secret Nazi technology..
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In 1946, on this day the 4,700 men, 13 ships, and multiple aircraft carriers of Task Force 68 departed from Norfolk, Virginia on a mission to end the Second World War by destroying the Secret Nazi Base in New Swabia, Antarctica.
Battle of AntarcticaUS Navy Secretary James Forrestal had personally supervised the assembly of this huge amphibious naval force, but for the mission itself, the principal leadership figure was Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr. who had been given operational command of the Carrier Group.
Forrestal had determined that Byrd was uniquely qualified to succeed in his assigned role in "Operation High Jump". He had already led three missions to Antartica but this would be the first that was funded by the Federal Government. Also, in the 1938 he had travelled to Hamburg where he was invited to participate in the 1938/1939 German "Neuschwabenland" Antarctic Expedition which he been forced to decline with great regret.
And yet the mission itself was uniquely challenging. On the 19th February, 1947 six R4-D planes took off from the carrier "Phillipine Sea" but only five returned. The sixth returned some seven hours later, after Byrd met with the Fuhrer. No details of that meeting have ever emerged, apart from a fragment from Byrd's Missing Diary ~ "There comes a time when the rationality of men must fade into insignificance and one must accept the inevitability of the Truth! I am not at liberty to disclose the following documentation at this writing ...perhaps it shall never see the light of public scrutiny, but I must do my duty and record here for all to read one day. In a world of greed and exploitation of certain of mankind can no longer suppress that which is truth". This article is taken from the NaziUFO thread.
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~ It's correctly spelled "Antarctica." And if the Germans have had time to establish themselves, they're in one of the strongest possible defensive positions on the globe, particularly if they've set up local sources for food. I would conveniently fall sick before going on this little trek.
~ I wish I knew what the truth really was? Byrd says things happend that the Government denies. Yet the feds confiscated his books so close to being sold they basically took them off the shelves before the stores opened.
They say Forrestal was nuts but some say he was pushed out a window of the navel psy ward by agents of the Government. If you talk to vets of the operation they don't recall any battle with UFO's or Nazis. Yet why send a battle group on a mission that was basically non military according to the offical reasons for it.
~ This site needs an edit option. Closed should read close. Fixed - thanks. Ed
~ Antarctica might be easily defended, but who would WANT to? Other than crazy Nazis, that is
~ The penguins, maybe? :)
~ If the Nazis came across information hidden in the city of the Elder Things from the Mountains of Madness, I'd bet they'd want to hold onto it.
~ This expedition MUST include the US 10th Mountain Division!
~ Isn't the R4-D the naval variant of the C-47 (DC-3)? I would love to have seen one of those take off from the USS Philippine Sea! In this timeline, Task Force 68 was beefed up quite a bit; in reality, the task force only contained four warships: one carrier, two destroyers and a submarine. Everything else carried fuel or supplies only.
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