European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Staff writer photos by Lynn Manofield or ets bpm to or we red in tag u and later to army posts in Alaska As a ill and col weather survival about this the transportation corps was developing and testing Vari Ous types of Snow vehicles and Arctic and Lavola took part in the research at such Remote and Geld locations As the Yukon and in Greenland with a stretch in Korea during which he was promoted from sergeant first class to in now a Havola re turned from Greenland to his Virginia Home Only to be met with orders As signing him to operation deep freeze in for another Story on operation deep freeze at Mcmurdo turn to Page 1 was not totally pleased at going off again so says but u turned out to be the highlight of my some months at Byrd station in Marie Byrd the major was Given command of the first american Overland expedition to the the objective was to transport diets fuel and other supplies to the navys Perma nent station at the and on the to collect scientific data about the ice Cap and the land beneath they found the ice to be an average of feet thick Over the part of the continent they Zavolas group consisted of an army chief warrant As navigator seven Navy personnel a construction Mechanic and train u radio oper a Cook and fir staid a Cre Vass Detector operator and three trac Tor two civil o  and a their equipment consisted of two d8  two Wea Sel Snow vehicles two 20ton cargo sleds and two wan Loans sled mounted heated one for sleeping and one for the Galley and dining the latter and helluva mess painted in Large letters on its and had open bins serving As deep freeze lock an electric refrigerator was carried to keep food at Normal since the average temperature during the trek was Zero degrees fahrenheit warmest was u degrees and coldest mlnus34 the Day they reached the the route followed by the party had been Laid out after air reconnaissance and it crossed a sloping plateau of South Westward to a pass through the Horlyck mountains and then almost due South to the the pass is now named Havola escarpment on official the main potential dancer to the men and their equipment wus crevasses in the ice Many of them thousands of feet deep and partly hidden by agile Snow the electronic Crevasse Detector was not entirely Havola like sonar Waves mistaking a school of fish for a sub the Crevasse Detector could be thrown off by Small ice but vigilance paid and nothing was lost to the icy the trip was almost without note worthy incident except for the storm which truck five Days after the and this was More provoking then per in a written account of Havola recalled Here on the Centre plateau the Snow Doest crust it lies Loose and ruts i looked out this White Ocean was but the Devil of the an transform this still Snow scape within minutes into a biting we soon knew its when the storm hit we stopped our two sled we always kept the engines of the two big tractors going so the lubricating Oil would stay i stepped into the whistling wind once or twice to Check the in front of i saw nothing but but above i could see Blue As we waited in our heated wan Loans for the storm to i thought of Robert Scott and his Hardy to a storm was Only a but to them it had meant on the Jurd Day after its the Havola expedition arrived at the pole to be greeted by the Nav men previously airlifted in to establish the Polar Zavolas first action was to go to the radio Shack thanks to a faraway american Ham radio operator who was keeping in touch with deep he got a phone Call through to his wife in it is not recorded whether he said ill be right but not very Long he like Scotts expedition in Zavolas group passed Christmas Day in route to the both leaders preserved the menus of their Holiday found to his reads atop Beardmore is december 1111 full whack Hellig with slices of horse meal Flavoured with Curry powder and Ilc keyed with biscuit Cocoa and biscuit swe Elcid Plain padding caramels Aad Ginifer the Havola party menu reads Christmas do Muff u degrees 41 Murat i h 1 b Cranberry battered con rape motorized rather than on foot when the Coplaon Roald Amundsen Riant led norwegian group hot beat British to buildings Art under deep drifts at Byrd 1964 ill fated 1912 Scott expedition Perth to in the icy the stars and stripes 13