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Antarctic explorer Admiral Byrd and conspiracy theories around his expeditions

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Richard Evelyn Byrd was an American aviator and polar explorer who in 1929 became the first person to fly over the South Pole.
Four major Antarctic expeditions under his leadership (1928-1930, 1933-1935, 1939-1941 and 1946-1947) discovered and explored vast areas. In 1929, the Little America base was founded on the coast of Antarctica. Baird gave the name to a number of areas of Antarctica (for example, Mary Byrd Land). During the expedition of 1933-1935, he discovered Mount Sidley from the air, which, as it turned out later, is the highest volcano on the continent.
The crew of Bird's plane, the first to fly over the South Pole; Byrd's 5 month wintering alone in Antarctica Richard E Byrd Revisiting old hut at the site of the original Little America

Richard Byrd spent the winter of 1934 alone at the Bowling Advance Base meteorological station, 196 kilometers from Little America. Enduring temperatures from -50 to -60 degrees Celsius, in five months he undermined his health and needed medical attention. Subsequently, he was treated: doctors discovered he had carbon monoxide poisoning, as well as some mental disorders. After recovering, Byrd took part in the third US Antarctic expedition of 1939-1941 (as a result of which Byrd's pilots managed to compile detailed maps of almost the entire West Antarctica), as well as in expeditions of 1946-1947 and 1955-1957.
Richard Bird implemented a number of research projects. For example, during the 1939-1941 expedition, he discovered that the south magnetic pole of the Earth had moved about a hundred miles to the west compared to 1909. He also took many measurements and photographs from the air.
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Later became Rear Admiral of the US Navy. The American Antarctic Research Station and the American National Center for Polar Research were named after Bird. In 1964, a crater on the Moon was named after Richard Baird http://www.x-libri.ru/elib/ospch000/00000047.htm

In 1946-1947, the US Navy conducted the Highjump Antarctic Expedition (OpHjp, “high jump”, the official name is The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946-1947. The expedition was led by retired Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, command of the Task Force 68 was carried out by Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzen.The operation began on August 26, 1946 and ended at the end of February 1947, six months ahead of schedule due to the early arrival of the Antarctic winter (according to the official version). formation 68 included 4700 people, 13 ships and several aircraft.The main scientific goal of the expedition was the establishment of the Antarctic research station "Little America IV".
This expedition by Bird was rather strange because it gave rise to a lot of information that during the flights of Bird in Antarctica, he allegedly discovered a secret Nazi base under the ice of glaciers and came into contact with aliens. Apparently, this is pure fiction. The formation of these inventions is described in books (see http://www.x-libri.ru/elib/ospch000/00000047.htm). Judging by the information circulating on the Internet, excerpts from the diaries of Richard Byrd began to emerge approximately from the mid-1990s. Moreover, some claim that they appeared at the suggestion of the Rear Admiral's wife, others that the fragments were made public at the suggestion of his daughter.

In August 1945, two German submarines surrendered to the Allies in Argentina, the crews of which did not know that the Second World War had ended. According to the good condition of the boats, the Argentines came to the conclusion that the boats settled in some secluded ports. The crews of the submarines talked cheerfully about the hidden meringue for submarines operating in the southern hemisphere "New Swabia" on the territory of Dronning Maud Land in Antarctica. It is quite possible that Bird, authoritative in military circles, but suffering from a mental disorder, managed to convince the US leadership to send a powerful naval formation to the shores of Antarctica in order to verify this information.
Bird in 1947 reported on the expedition at the Pentagon for a long time and left a diary after his death with curious details of the 1947 expedition that were not included in the official reports. And perhaps it simply contains information about what Bird saw on his first polar expedition in 1926, with which “not everything is clear” either, and the zhnevnik itself was written under the impression of Bird’s hardest wintering alone in Antarctica. In any case, there is no doubt that the seventh chapter from the third part of the diary - the one where we are talking about the meeting of Richard Bird with representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization, was simply invented by an unknown forger much later than Bird.

Stalin's campaign in Antarctica in 1946-1947

Truman Secretary of State James Byrnes:
"The damned Russians turned out to be impossible to frighten. In this matter (meaning Antarctica), they won."

In popular literature and on the Internet, there is an abundance of materials about the "strange" military campaign of American Rear Admiral Richard Byrd - America's national hero - to Antarctica in January 1947. This campaign ended in complete disgrace for the United States, and to this day, American intelligence agencies have tried their best and are trying hide this thread.

There are many rumors, legends, myths, and outright deceit associated with Baird's name. Therefore, I give a brief biography of his references.

Richard Evelyn Byrd (also spelled Byrd) was born in 1888 in Winchester, Virginia, into an aristocratic family. He began his military career in an elite unit of the US Navy. But in 1912, after graduating from the US Naval Academy, having received a serious leg injury, he was forced to leave the naval service. During the First World War, having learned to pilot, Richard Baird began to fly a seaplane.

On May 6, 1926, Richard Baird, together with Floyd Bennett, on a three-engine plane, having taken off from Svalbard, flew for the first time in history over the North Pole, ahead of their “competitors” - the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, who, together with the American millionaire Lincoln Ellsworth and the Italian scientist Umberto Nobile, flew airship "Norway" in May of the same year made a flight along the route "Svalbard - North Pole - Alaska".

After this flight over the North Pole, Byrd and Bennett became US national heroes and were awarded the Medal of Honor of the US Congress. US President Calvin Coolidge sent Baird a congratulatory telegram expressing his special presidential satisfaction that this "record was set by an American." Amundsen believed that Byrd was a deceiver, but the Americans accused the Norwegian Amudsen of envy.

On November 29, 1929, Baird (as a navigator) in a three-engine Ford aircraft with three Americans flew over the South Pole and dropped the American flag there. America is excited again. Baird led four major Antarctic expeditions (1928-30, 1933-35, 1939-41 and 1946-47). Byrd explored vast areas of Antarctica, discovered a mountain range and a previously unknown territory, which he named after his wife - Mary Byrd Land. Baird's pilots compiled a complete map of almost all of West Antarctica. On the Ross Ice Shelf, in 1929 Byrd founded the first long-term US station, Little America.

In 1930, the US Congress awarded Richard Byrd the rank of Rear Admiral in the US Navy. The American Antarctic Research Station and the American National Center for Polar Research were named after Baird.

In December 1946, the US government sends an expedition to Antarctica, which has always and everywhere been called and is called "Byrd's Expedition". For the American public, for the governments and peoples of the globe, it is announced that this is a purely scientific expedition. But there is still some freedom of speech and press in America. A little more than in Germany under Hitler, in the USSR under Stalin. And something unpleasant for Truman and the US War Department soon found its way into newspapers and magazines. Information was obtained and published that this expedition was financed and controlled by the US military department. It was revealed that the military and intelligence agencies are making great efforts to make everyone less aware of this expedition. They tried to hide the composition of this "scientific" expedition. The truth could not be hidden.

Baird's expedition included a special squadron of 14 American warships and auxiliary vessels. Among them is an aircraft carrier carrying helicopters and planes. According to the memoirs of pilot Syerson, the Casablanca aircraft carrier air group consisted of six (according to other sources, seven) S-46 helicopters, 25 aircraft: five F-4U Corsair carrier-based fighters, five A-21 Vampire jet attack aircraft ”, nine Helldiver bombers, the commander’s F7F Tigercat and five XF-5U Skimmer (“pancakes”).

BATTLE FOR ANTARCTICA

The version that the Nazis who settled in New Swabia transferred some of their latest technology to the United States is not without plausibility.

“The author of the note reported that the Russians attacked our peaceful polar expedition in Antarctica and defeated it. Admiral Byrd, who commanded this expedition, miraculously escaped. Allegedly, he was captured by the Russians and was subsequently exchanged for two Russian spies who stole the secret of our atomic bomb.

The version that the expedition of Richard Byrd was attacked by Soviet aircraft is stated by Alexander Biryuk, who has already been repeatedly mentioned in his book “The Great Secret of Ufology, or UFOs - a Secret Strike”. Biryuk, which looks very funny, does not "steam" at all about the fact that in the same book he sets out directly opposite versions of the attack on Rear Admiral Byrd's squadron, without even trying to compare and analyze how they relate to each other .

So, according to the “Soviet” version of this researcher, on February 27, 1947, the admiral’s Tigercat was attacked by Soviet P-63 fighters. However, to begin with, we will give the floor to Alexander Biryuk himself, and then we will analyze what he wrote.

FLYING OBJECTS OF THE USSR

Biryuk’s “Soviet” version is as follows: “On February 27, the plane on which Admiral Byrd flew east to find and photograph the airfield where the Soviet attack aircraft that attacked his squadron was based was subjected to a sudden attack by two P-63 fighters” with red stars on the wings. Having shot through one engine of the admiral's Tigercat, they forced it to land on an ice field, and the paratroopers who arrived in time on the transport Li-2 in the most natural way took the famous admiral prisoner.

As Bird himself testifies in his recently “deciphered” diaries, the Russians treated him with all the complacency and good-heartedness that they were capable of in relation to a worthy adversary (about Bird’s “deciphered” diary, which, apparently, was put into circulation around 1995, read separately in the fourth part of the "Battle for Antarctica" - consp.). Red and black caviar, “Stolichnaya vodka”, first-class cigarettes “Herzegovina-Flor” beloved by Stalin himself - all this was provided to the American in abundance, but he was also honestly warned that if President Truman did not go to peace negotiations, then the admiral will have to be eliminated in the most natural way.

In his notes, the admiral also cites some of the names of his high-ranking Russian "friends": such as Petrov, Ivanov, Sidorov, but it is also clear which people he has in mind. At the very least, the identities of Rear Admiral Papanin and Generals Kamanin and Lyapidevsky are guessed so clearly that they do not need any additional decoding in any way.

REFERENCE

PAPANIN IVAN DMITRIEVICH (1894-1986) - Soviet polar explorer, doctor of geographical sciences (1938), rear admiral (1943), twice Hero of the Soviet Union, member of the CPSU (b) since 1919, participant in the Civil War since 1917. He headed the first Soviet drifting station SP-1 (1937-1938). Head of the Glavsevmorput (1939-1946), during the Great Patriotic War - authorized by the State Defense Committee for transportation in the North. Responsible for the work of the ports of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk. In 1948-1951 - Deputy Director of the Institute of Oceanology of the USSR Academy of Sciences for expeditions, in 1952-1972 - Director of the Institute of Biology of Inland Waters of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 1st and 2nd convocations.

In 1985, I.D. Papanin was one of the first to support the idea of the Arktika Expeditionary Center to make a ski crossing to the North Pole without air support, in an autonomous mode, which was carried out in 1989.

KAMANIN NIKOLAY PETROVICH (1909-1982) - Soviet military leader, colonel-general of aviation, in 1934 he participated in the rescue of the crew of the Chelyuskin steamer, for which he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in the same year. During the Great Patriotic War - commander of the 292nd assault aviation division (Kalinin Front), commander of the 8th mixed and 5th assault aviation corps (1st and 2nd Ukrainian front). After the war he continued to command the corps. Since 1947, he worked in the Main Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet, in 1951-1955 - Deputy Chairman of the DOSAAF for Aviation. In 1956 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff. In 1956-1958 - commander of the air army, since 1958 - deputy chief of the Air Force Main Staff for combat training. Since 1960, he served as Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force for Space. In 1966-1971. supervised the selection and training of Soviet cosmonauts. Retired since 1971.

LYAPIDEVSKY ANATOLY VASILIEVICH (1908-1983) - Soviet pilot, the first Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General of Aviation, member of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks - the CPSU since 1934, in the same year he participated in the rescue of the Chelyuskin crew (he made 29 search flights in a snowstorm, before on March 5, 1934, having discovered the Chelyuskin camp, landed on an ice floe and took out 12 people from there - 10 women and 2 children). Since 1939 - Deputy Head of the Main Inspectorate of the NKAP, Director of Aviation Plant No. 156 (at the Central Aerodrome). Member of the Great Patriotic War: from September 1942 to September 1943 - Deputy Commander of the Air Force of the 19th Army, head of field repairs of the 7th Air Army (Karelian Front). Since 1943 - again director of an aircraft factory. After the end of the war, he worked as the chief controller of the State Control of the USSR, deputy minister of the aviation industry, and director of an aviation plant. Since 1961 - in reserve.

We will return to how likely the "Soviet" version of the attack on the squadron of Richard Byrd and the capture of the admiral's Tigercat. For now, consider another version. It, again, is expounded by Alexander Biryuk, who is extremely popular in Runet (judging by the number of quotes and references).

There is evidence that Richard Byrd's squadron was not attacked by Soviet aircraft at all. In this regard, the story of one publication in the American newspaper Adventure (Savannah, Georgia), which was published in April 1947, is very interesting.

WITHDRAWN CIRCULATION OF THE SAVANNE NEWSPAPER

In 1994, the Daily Frame newspaper (Savannah, Georgia, USA) published an interview with a certain Oliver Robertson, a lighthouse keeper on nearby Ossabo Island. In April 1947, when Oliver was only 6 years old, he accidentally witnessed how government agents seized from a kiosk located next to the house where he lived with his parents, the circulation of the Savannah newspaper Adventure that arrived there. When questioned by passers-by, agents said that the newspaper had received false information on foreign policy topics, and the government was concerned that it would not confuse readers.

When Oliver came home, he found out that his father still managed to buy this newspaper. But it turned out that other government agents (most likely from the FBI) are conducting door-to-door checks in all nearby buildings in order to confiscate all copies purchased by the population.

Father hid this newspaper under the linoleum in the kitchen, - Robertson recalled, - and when the agents came, he told them that he had not bought the newspaper yet and had not even heard about its content. In order not to arouse suspicion with a too direct answer, he asked why such a confiscation was taking place, and in response he heard the same thing that I heard near the kiosk. My father continued to keep this newspaper under linoleum until the early 1960s, and when I grew up, showed it to me, already yellowed from time. There was an article in this newspaper under the heading "War with the Russians", or something like that, I don't remember anymore.

The author of the note, referring to some central news agency, reported that the Russians attacked our peaceful polar expedition in Antarctica and defeated it. Our admiral, who commanded this expedition, miraculously escaped. Allegedly, he was captured by the Russians and was subsequently exchanged for two Russian spies who stole the secret of our atomic bomb. As you understand, then we had not the best times in the country. From abroad, there were more and more reports that the Chinese, to whom we had presented so many weapons, equipment and other wealth during the war, had betrayed us and entered into an agreement with Stalin; that the Russians are already making their atomic bombs in large numbers and will soon go to war against the United States, etc. And then there is this message about the conflict at the South Pole!

We all then did not believe our government, which claimed that we had absolutely nothing to fear, because the Russians did not yet have atomic weapons - everyone knew perfectly well that Stalin was cunning and treacherous, and could attack suddenly. So why doesn't it start in Antarctica?

Alexander Biryuk tells another curious story that happened to Florida ufologist Gordon Riquet. The ufologist, after carefully listening to Robertson, tried to find the editorial office of the Adventure newspaper, but in the process of searching he found out that such a newspaper had not existed since 1950. In all the libraries where Riquet looked, only corrected copies of the desired issue were preserved, that is, with a different article instead of the one that interested him. About the fate of his copy, which was kept by his father, Oliver Robertson could not say anything definite (if this copy, of course, existed at all).

However, the story didn't stop there. The mystery was one of the issues of the popular Chicago magazine "Forward" in 1947, which published an exclusive article about the disaster of the expedition of Admiral Byrd, based on the story of one of the sailors; It also included a few photographs. What happened after the circulation of this issue is not known: all copies have disappeared. More precisely, almost all of them, with the exception of a few who "slipped" through the hands of some specialists, with whom Gordon Riquet met and wrote down their memoirs.

Some claimed to have seen the ill-fated article in the weekly Bramo, but no one could provide a copy to support their words. Others believed that the sensational article was published not in Bramo and not in Forward, but in Bolshaya Politika. Riquet, describing his misadventures, says that he found both "Bramo" and "Big Politics" in the libraries, but these numbers were also corrected. Unless, of course, before the correction, something about Byrd's expedition was published in them. In the end, Gordon Ricke found what he was looking for in the magazine "Kreis" (Columbus): in September 1987, an article "UFOs in Antarctica" was published in this magazine. There are many references to this publication in Runet.

“FLYING AUSTRUCTORS” JUMPED FROM UNDER THE WATER

The author of the article, a well-known American ufologist Leonard Stringfield (LeonardStringfield), interviewed one of the pilots who in 1947 participated in the expedition of Rear Admiral Richard Byrd. According to John Syerson (that was the name of the pilot), during World War II he served in the polar aviation, and then in the attack aircraft squadron, which was based in the Aleuts and raided Japanese targets on the Kuril Islands. Thus, Syerson had experience in flying and successfully completing combat missions in difficult polar weather conditions, which allowed the rear admiral to involve him in a difficult task in Antarctica along with other veterans of polar aviation.

According to Syerson, the air group of the Casablanca aircraft carrier, on which he fell, consisted of six (according to other sources, seven) S-46 helicopters, 25 aircraft: five F-4UCorsair carrier-based fighters, five jet attack aircraft " A-21 Vampire", nine Helldiver bombers, the commander's F7FTigercat and five XF-5U Skimmer. On our own behalf, we add that some modern foreign researchers believe that, in fact, the expedition of Rear Admiral Richard Byrd had much more equipment - both ships and aircraft.

The last five aircraft were aircraft of a new type (their tests were first carried out in Connecticut in 1945, according to other sources - at the Murok Dry Lake training ground in California). "They were so funny on the deck of an aircraft carrier, - Syerson recalled, - that it was hard to believe that they would be able not only to complete a combat mission, but also to fly in general. But as soon as training flights began, the “pancakes” showed what they were capable of in experienced hands. The famous "Corsairs" in comparison with them seemed to be sitting ducks.

The experienced pilot rather succinctly, but very succinctly described the first month of the Casablanca aircraft carrier's stay in Antarctic waters. But, starting on February 26, when he mentioned the sinking of the destroyer Murdoch, obvious failures began to appear in his version, which even the all-knowing Stringfield was unable to explain.

“They jumped out from under the water like mad, - says the former pilot, describing the “flying saucers” that opposed the Americans, - they literally slipped between the masts of the ships at such a speed that the radio antennas were tore with streams of disturbed air. Several "Corsairs" managed to take off from the "Casablanca", but compared to these strange aircraft, they looked like hobbled ones. I didn't even have time to blink an eye when two "Corsairs", struck down by some unknown rays that splashed from the bows of these "flying saucers", dug into the water near the ships. At that time I was on the deck of the Casablanca and saw it the way you see me now.

I didn't understand anything. These objects did not make a single sound, they silently rushed between the ships, like some kind of blue-black swallows with blood-red beaks, and ceaselessly spat deadly fire. Suddenly "Murdoch", which was ten cables from us (almost 1,900 meters - consp.), blazed with a bright flame and began to sink. From other ships, despite the danger, lifeboats and boats were immediately sent to the crash site. When our “pancakes” arrived in the battle area, shortly before that they were relocated to the coastal airfield, and they could not do anything. The whole nightmare lasted about twenty minutes. When the "flying saucers" again dived under the water, we began to count the losses. They were horrendous!" .

In this fleeting battle, the US Navy lost one ship, thirteen aircraft (4 shot down, nine disabled, including three Skimmers) and more than forty people (according to other sources, up to 68 people were killed) personnel . Basically, they were sailors from the sunken destroyer. The rest of the ships were not subjected to fire from "flying saucers", to the considerable surprise of the sailors.

The results of the expedition were immediately classified, and all its participants were forced to sign a bunch of various documents on non-disclosure of all sorts of secrets. And, nevertheless, something leaked to the press even then, which can be judged at least from articles in the Savannah newspaper Adventure or Chicago publications.

DID THE NAZIS SEND PART OF THEIR TECHNOLOGY TO THE US?

Studying numerous materials on the expeditions of Richard Byrd in the 1940s-1950s, I constantly came across the most controversial versions. This kind of information includes, for example, references to the publications of 1947-1948 mentioned above in the journals Frey, Dimestish and Brizant. According to these publications, it turned out that officers and sailors already participating in the Antarctic expedition of 1946-1947 were talking about how the destroyer Murdoch was attacked by mysterious aircraft that jumped out of the water.

Already in the 2000s, print and Internet publications (see, for example, Alexander Volodev's article in the UFO magazine, No. 4, 2005) contained references to some declassified transcripts of Richard Byrd's report to the presidential special commission in March (according to other sources, in April) 1947. Bird is credited with the following words: “We need protection from high-speed and highly maneuverable German fighters active in the polar latitudes. Such aircraft do not need multiple refueling to hit targets anywhere in the world. These machines, which caused damage to our expedition, are completely, from the smelting of metal to the last screw, produced under the ice, in factory buildings, arranged in cavities of natural origin.

Anticipating reasonable questions about energy sources, I will say that a nuclear power plant operates there. The Germans carried out the transfer of specialists, food, everything necessary for establishing production and life from 1935 to 1945. They didn't let us in."

Moreover, Richard Byrd, they say, showed the members of the commission a mocking leaflet - one of those that rained down on the heads of Americans at the end of February 1947 from the slow-moving Junkers. On yellow paper over a red-tinted swastika was printed in gothic type "Dear guests, are you tired of the hosts?".

And then ... And then mourning was declared in America. "The media reported, - writes the author of the UFO magazine, - that the great polar explorer Richard Byrd died of a massive heart attack, which was preceded by a mental breakdown. The burial at Arlington Cemetery was modest for a natural reason: after all, Bird was not only alive and full of optimism, but was preparing a second expedition to Queen Maud Land! .

As in many other similar cases, the authors of such publications prefer not to refer to sources of information and not to specify details. Alexander Volodev, apparently, has in mind another US Antarctic expedition of 1947-1948, during which two icebreakers (“Burton Island” and “Port Beaumont”) headed for Antarctica to organize Antarctic stations and process aerial photography materials of the previous expedition on the ground Bird in order to create accurate maps of the area.

Not considering it necessary to clarify the notorious "declassified" sources of information, the researchers of the mysterious expedition of Richard Bird, nevertheless, assure that in April (according to other sources, already on March 10), 1947, he handed over to the US government a document addressed to President Harry Truman and the US Government . It was called “Intention for Cooperation” and was signed from the “Antarctic” side by Maximilian Hartmann, who was responsible in New Swabia, as can be understood from the publication mentioned above, for scientific developments and their practical implementation.

To demonstrate to the Americans the sincerity of his intentions, Hartmann guaranteed the transfer of the technical documentation of the latest aircraft, which, upon reaching certain speeds, becomes invisible to people and radars. The aircraft, however, had the only drawback: the fuel supply allowed it to stay in the air for only half an hour.

Byrd brought the miracle machine to America. Outwardly, she looked like a flattened flounder. In the first minutes of the flight, it emitted a blinding light. Then she disappeared from sight and, becoming invulnerable, easily hit any target. It is with aircraft of this type, the author of the UFO magazine is sure, that the pilots who took off from an aircraft carrier in February 1947 collided.

Moreover, it seems that Richard Byrd, along with the closest ascetics, went on board the German submarine, which delivered the guests to the headquarters. During the visit, it became clear what the inhabitants of New Swabia want: “We have no unity of power, no unity of the nation, no future, - Hartmann said to Rear Admiral, - and in order not to degrade in isolation, we must return to civilization with your help. In the artificial world where we are, time has stopped, and this is torture. Here souls die in living bodies.

Such evidence is hard to believe. It is just as difficult to question them, because the authors of such publications do not provide any convincing evidence for what is described. Here, as they say, for what I bought - for that I sold it.

We'll move on. Having considered two versions of the origin of the forces that attacked the Antarctic expedition of Rear Admiral Byrd in February-March 1947, let's move on to the latest version. But first, let's return to the question of whether the American squadron could be attacked by Soviet aircraft.

SOVIET "KINGCOBRA" AMERICAN PRODUCTION

Some researchers believe that the P-63 Kingcobra fighters could act as the air "superweapon" of the USSR in the 1940s. Indeed, in 1944-1945, under the lend-lease program, 2,400 P-63 Kingcobra fighters were delivered to the USSR from the USA. Most of the aircraft of this series were supplied to the USSR due to the fact that the machines of previous modifications fully satisfied the needs of the US Air Force in fighter aircraft.

The Americans themselves, not without reason, called the P-63 a “Russian aircraft” for the simple reason that practically the entire series was delivered to the USSR (in the USA, only a few dozen P-63s were used for training purposes, and about 300 aircraft were delivered to the French military units in the Mediterranean).

It is noteworthy that the Kingcobra practically did not participate in the hostilities of the Second World War on the side of the USSR: as such, there was no longer any need for this. After the war, this most modern fighter took a firm place in Soviet aviation, becoming the most massive imported aircraft. Our pilots highly respected the Kingcobras for their ease of use, a spacious comfortable heated cabin with excellent visibility, good instruments, a shooting sight and adaptability to work in the Far North.

The Kingcobras remained in service until the Soviet-made jet fighters entered service: their replacement began in 1950. By the way, the P-63s played an important role in the mass retraining of Soviet pilots in the management of new jet technology - the MiG-9 fighters, and then the MiG-15. The fact is that both of them had a chassis with a nose wheel (like the R-63), and all Soviet piston fighters had the chassis of the old scheme: with a tail support.

There is an opinion (in particular, it is expressed by Alexander Biryuk) that “by 1947, all the P-63 fighters that fell into the hands of Stalin were in full combat readiness and participated in all overt and covert operations of the Soviet Air Force carried out in that period. One of them was the first Soviet Antarctic expedition led by Admiral Papanin.

This seems to be a completely possible version, but the fact is that the P-63 Kingcobra fighter, although it was an excellent aircraft for that time, was not a unique aircraft in its characteristics. Similar machines were in service with the US Air Force. It is unlikely that the US military could take the "Kingcobra" for a fundamentally different aircraft.

Did the USSR by 1947 have aircraft of a fundamentally new type - like those that were able to move both in the air and under water? It is difficult to answer this question unequivocally, but, most likely, the Soviet Union did not have such devices.

Now is the time to move on to the description of the next version, according to which the expedition of Rear Admiral Richard Byrd in February 1947 met with representatives of other civilizations. Moreover, judging by the publications, this meeting was the first, but not the only one ...

Material prepared by Igor OSOVIN

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Byrd's expedition also included the submarine Sennet. The expedition includes several thousand marines. The total number of participants in the "scientific expedition" is 4-5 thousand people. The journalists found out that Rear Admiral Richard G. Krausen was appointed to command the ships of the squadron, and Rear Admiral Byrd was assigned the role of chief consultant to the expedition. In the holds of ships - food supplies for 8 months.

What is this purely scientific expedition. This is a serious naval squadron.

And some foreign and Russian researchers argue that, in fact, the expedition of Rear Admiral Richard Byrd had much more equipment - both ships and aircraft.

The researchers also found out that the operation that this naval squadron was supposed to carry out in Antarctica was code-named "High Jump" ("High Jump"). Many journalists in the United States wrote that, according to the admiral's plan, "the name was supposed to symbolize the last, final blow to the unfinished Third Reich in the ice of Antarctica." Yes, the military department and special services by this time, after the interrogation of German submariners, had vague information that there was some kind of “German legacy” in Antarctica.

But to finish off the Germans, if they are still preserved in Antarctica, and to seize the “German legacy” is not the main thing. The main business of the predator of the United States, which greatly increased during the war and claimed first place on the globe, is to lay its paw on the whole of Antarctica. This is full US control over Antarctica. The main thing is not to let the Russians into Antarctica. And if they appear - drive away.

Rear Admiral Baird's expedition left the United States in December 1946. “With the arrival in Antarctic waters, the squadron was divided into three operational groups. Already on December 30-31, the central group under the command of Byrd himself, accompanied by two icebreakers and a submarine, tried to break into the Scott Island area. But the submarine (according to the official version) received damage to the hull, and she had to be urgently taken in tow to the port of Wellington (New Zealand).

A new attempt to survey the coast of Antarctica was made only a month later, but already in the area of Queen Maud Land. Here, aircraft from an aircraft carrier carried out more than 30 sorties in two weeks to carry out deep aerial photography of various regions of the continent. At the same time, a thorough survey of the coast was carried out by the coastal party.

On February 1, 1947, the Americans landed in Antarctica in the area of Queen Maud Land and began to study in detail the part of the territory adjacent to the ocean. “In a month, about 50,000 photographs were taken, to be exact - 49563 (data taken from the Brooker Cast geophysical yearbook, Chicago). Aerial photography covered 60% of the area Baird was interested in, the researchers discovered and mapped several previously unknown mountain plateaus and founded a polar station.

Antarctica. 1947th. Great Mystery of Ufology

.... "Fight" with such a mass phenomenon as a UFO is simply pointless and even stupid - with equal success, you can shout at every corner that there is no God. However, more or less seriously studying the history of UFOLOGY, you can easily stumble upon rather curious things that, with some effort, can lead to the disclosure of secrets of a slightly different order, but which have never been advertised in the world press.

After all ufology, unlike many other sciences and even most pseudosciences, it does not have its own subject for study, oddly enough to say now, and in this it is similar to real myth-making. It would be simply unreasonable for a more or less serious researcher to consider UFOs that are completely elusive even for the human imagination as an object for research. For the most part, it's about something completely different. In search of this OTHER, we should decide on a kind of historical experiment and observe where all this ufology can eventually lead.

Any versions explaining the massive appearance of UFOs in America and precisely since 1947 remain just versions that are not supported by any good reason. Of course, one can take seriously everyone's favorite hypothesis ufologists of the world, that the US military simply entered into an agreement with aliens in the hope of still extracting at least some technical information from these "misers" (aliens) to create a super-weapon against the Antichrist-Bolsheviks ... But then the same hypothesis will have to be applied and in relation to One Sixth Part of the Land, that is, the USSR, not to mention the rest of the world, and this in itself already predetermines the undoubted possibility of a total conspiracy of all the rulers of the world, not so much against other countries, but against their own peoples. The hypothesis is collapsing before our eyes, just like the next one, downright screaming about the same concealment of the same "flying discs" by the same military from the same people ... but without the CONVENTION of the government with aliens, but, as they say, " for the sake of world peace", that is, "... the global calm of the world ruling elite, regardless of any ideological (as well as religious) differences, since any ideology (like religion) is, in the end, just a different way drink juices from the bulk of the world's population without experiencing any special material or moral inconvenience "(Soltz R. "History of Mythologies").

And here again questions arise, and again there are no intelligible answers to them, except for these answers whistleblower ufologists. Many ufologists probably know that "America's hero" Kenneth Arnold is far from the first American to observe "flying saucers" in all their glory and action. In the early 60s, excerpts from the diary of the famous American polar explorer Richard Baird, who at the very beginning of 1947 led a major expedition to the eastern shores of Antarctica, became the property of ufologists. And so, knowledgeable people claim that in this very diary, only in another, still secret place, Baird allegedly states that during one of his reconnaissance flights over the icy desert of the Sixth Continent, he was allegedly forced to land ... strange aircraft, " ... similar, - I quote from the book of the English ufologist Winston Flammel, - to FLAT BRITISH HELMETS! What Admiral Richard Byrd describes is simply inconvenient to repeat after him, because even children will not believe it. However, in any case, it becomes clear that even if some "misunderstanding" that happened on February 25, 1942 over Los Angeles ("Battle over Los Angeles") is excluded from the long list of "observations", then the chronology of "indisputable UFO sightings" is simple, like a eaten egg - it was Admiral Richard Byrd who saw the first American CLASSIC "flying saucer", and this happened not over America, but over the Sixth Continent.

It is from this incident that all stories on the history of UFOs should generally begin.

EXPEDITION OF ADMIRAL BYRD

The prehistory of this story begins even, so to speak, in "prehistoric" times. Many knowledgeable experts argue that some "ancient high cults" are directly involved here - in a word, magic, occultism and other palmistry. More “mundane” researchers start counting from later dates, and specifically from the year 1945, when the captains of two Nazi submarines interned in Argentine ports told the American intelligence services that “received” them that at the end of the war they allegedly carried out some kind of special flights on supplies to Hitler's Shangri-La, the mysterious Nazi base in Antarctica.

The American military leadership took this information so seriously that they decided to send in search of this very base, which the Germans themselves called "New Swabia", a whole fleet led by its most competent polar explorer, Rear Admiral Richard Baird. This was the fourth Antarctic expedition of the famous admiral, but unlike the first three, it was entirely funded by the US Navy, which predetermined the absolute secrecy of its goals and results. The expedition included the escort aircraft carrier "Casablanca", converted from high-speed transport, and on which 18 aircraft and 7 helicopters were based (helicopters would not have turned their tongue - very imperfect aircraft with a limited range and extremely low survivability), as well as more 12 ships, which accommodated more than 4 thousand people. The whole operation received a code name - "High Jump" ("High Jump"), which, according to the admiral's plan, was supposed to symbolize the last, final blow to the unfinished Third Reich in the ice of Antarctica ...

So, the 4th expedition of Admiral Baird, covered by such an impressive fleet for a simple civilian expedition, landed in Antarctica in the area of Queen Maud Land on February 1, 1947 and began a detailed study of the territory adjacent to the ocean. During the month, about 50 thousand photographs were taken, or rather - 49563 (data taken from the geophysical yearbook "Bruker Kast", Chicago). Aerial photography covered 60% of the area Baird was interested in, the researchers discovered and mapped several previously unknown mountain plateaus and founded a polar station. But after a while, the work was suddenly stopped, and the expedition urgently returned to America.

For more than a year, no one had absolutely no idea about the true reasons for such a hasty "escape" of Richard Byrd from Antarctica, moreover, no one in the world then even suspected that at the very beginning of March 1947 the expedition had to engage in a real battle with the enemy , whose presence in the zone of her research allegedly did not expect at all. Since its return to the United States, the expedition has been surrounded by such a dense veil of secrecy that no other scientific expedition of its kind has been surrounded, but some of the most cunning newspapermen still managed to find out that Baird's squadron returned far from being at full strength - it allegedly lost at least one ship, 13 aircraft and about forty personnel ... Sensation, in a word!

And this very sensation was properly "formulated" and took its rightful place on the pages of the Belgian popular science magazine "Frey", and then was reprinted by the West German "Demestish" and found a new breath in the West German "Brizant". A certain Karel Lagerfeld informed the public that, after returning from Antarctica, Admiral Byrd gave lengthy explanations at a secret meeting of the presidential special commission in Washington, and her summary was as follows: ships and aircraft of the Fourth Antarctic Expedition were attacked by ... strange "flying saucers" that "... they emerged from under the water, and moving at great speed, they caused significant damage to the expedition."

In the opinion of Admiral Byrd himself, these amazing aircraft must have been produced at the Nazi aircraft factories camouflaged in the thickness of the Antarctic ice, the designers of which mastered some unknown energy used in the engines of these devices ... Among other things, Baird told high-ranking officials the following:

"The United States needs to take defensive actions as quickly as possible against enemy fighters flying out of the polar regions. In the event of a new war, America could be attacked by an enemy that has the ability to fly from one pole to another at incredible speed!"

So, we clearly see that "flying saucers" appeared for the first time precisely in Antarctica, and here some documents that are not at all related to UFO problems in the most direct way draw our attention to the fact that at the very time when the Admiral's ships Baird was anchored in the Lazarev Sea off the coast of the icy Queen Maud Land, there were already ... Soviet warships!

In all domestic encyclopedias and reference books it is written that the capitalist countries began to divide Antarctica among themselves long before the Second World War. How successful they were at it can be judged at least by the fact that the Soviet government, concerned about the agility of the British and Norwegians in the "study" of the southern polar latitudes, in January 1939 filed an official protest to the governments of these countries due to the fact that their Antarctic expeditions "... engaged in unreasonable division into sectors of lands once discovered by Russian explorers and navigators ...". When the British and Norwegians, soon bogged down in the battles of the Second World War, had no time for Antarctica, such notes were sent to neutral for the time being, but no less aggressive, in his opinion, the United States and Japan.

The new turn of the destructive war, which soon engulfed half the world, stopped these disputes for a while. But only for a while. A year and a half after the end of hostilities in the Pacific Ocean, the Soviet military had the most detailed aerial photography data of the entire coast of the Queen Maud Land, starting from Cape Tyuleniy and ending with Lützow-Holm Bay - and this is no less than 3500 kilometers in a straight line! Few knowledgeable people still claim that the Russians simply took this data after the war from the Germans, who, as is known, carried out two large-scale Antarctic expeditions a year before the Polish military campaign of 1939.

The Russians did not deny this, but they flatly refused to share their booty with other interested parties, referring to "national interests." After the hasty "escape" of Baird's expedition, which was designed for at least 8 months in the harsh conditions of low latitudes, and therefore equipped beyond measure, America urgently began informal negotiations with the governments of Argentina, Chile, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, UK and France. In parallel with this, a cautious but persistent press campaign begins in the States themselves. In one of the central American magazines, Foreign Affairs, George Kennan, the former US envoy to the USSR, who had urgently left Moscow "for consultations with his government" not long before, published an article in which he very unambiguously expressed his idea of "the need for an early organizing a rebuff to the exorbitantly grown ambitions of the Soviets, who, after the successful end of the war with Germany and Japan, are in a hurry to use their military and political victories to plant the harmful ideas of communism not only in Eastern Europe and China, but also in ... distant Antarctica!

In response to this statement, which seemed to be in the nature of the official policy of the White House, Stalin published his own memorandum on the political regime of Antarctica, where he spoke in a rather sharp form about the intentions of the US ruling elite "... to deprive the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of its legal right, based on discoveries in this part of the world by Russian navigators made at the beginning of the 19th century ... ". At the same time, some other measures were taken, symbolizing the protest of the American policy towards Antarctica, objectionable to Stalin. One can judge the nature and results of these measures, if only by the fact that after some time, Truman's Secretary of State, James Byrnes, who always, as you know, advocated the toughest sanctions against the USSR, unexpectedly for everyone, resigned early, obviously forced to do so. Truman. Byrnes's last words in public office were:

"The damned Russians turned out to be impossible to frighten. In this matter (meaning Antarctica) they won.

The hype around the Sixth Continent quickly subsided after the USSR was supported by Argentina and France. Truman, reflecting on the balance of power that has been created in this region, reluctantly, but nevertheless, agreed to the participation of Stalin's representatives at the international conference on Antarctica, which was scheduled to be held in Washington, but stressed that if an agreement on the equal presence of all interested countries is signed, then it must certainly include such an important point as the demilitarization of Antarctica and the prohibition on its territory of any military activity, up to the storage of weapons at Antarctic bases, including nuclear weapons, and the development of raw materials necessary for the creation of any kind of weapons should also be banned...

However, all these preliminary agreements are the front side of the medal, its obverse, so to speak. Returning to the failed expedition of Admiral Baird, it should be noted that back in January 1947, the waters of the Lazarev Sea were quite officially plowed by a Soviet research vessel, which, of course, belonged to the Ministry of Defense, called Slava. However, at the disposal of some researchers there were documents that very eloquently testify that in those harsh years for the fate of the whole world, not only "Glory" was hanging around the coast of Queen Maud Land. Having studied the information received and combined it with the data that appeared in the open press at different times in history, we can quite reasonably assume that the squadron of Admiral Richard Byrd was opposed by the well-equipped and led by competent polar admirals ... the Antarctic Fleet of the USSR Navy!

"FLYING DUTCH" SOVIET NAVY

Strange as it may seem, but until very recently, for some reason, few people paid attention to the fact that in the Soviet press almost no attention was paid to the exploration of the Antarctic by our compatriots in the 40s - early 50s. The quantity and quality of specific documents of that time, open to the outside public, also does not indulge in a special variety. All information on this subject was exhausted by some general phrases like: " Antarctica- the country of penguins and eternal ice, it certainly needs to be mastered and studied in order to understand many geophysical processes occurring in other parts of the globe, "more like slogans than messages. About the successes of foreign states in studying this very" country of penguins " it was written as if they were at least enterprises of the CIA or the Pentagon, in any case, no interested independent enthusiastic specialist who was not endowed with the highest confidence of the Soviet government could obtain exhaustive information from the open press.

However, in the archives of Western intelligence services, with which many Soviet and Polish spies "worked" in their time, and who in our time wished to write their own memoirs, documents were found that shed light on some aspects of the first official (rather semi-official, disguised as a study of fishing situation in the Antarctic) of the Soviet Antarctic expedition of 1946-47, which arrived to the shores of Queen Maud Land on the diesel-electric ship "Slava". Such famous names as Papanin, Krenkel, Fedorov, Vodopyanov, Mazuruk, Kamanin, Lyapidevsky unexpectedly came to light, and the first of this seven is a rear admiral (almost a marshal!), And the last four are full generals, and the generals are not anyhow what ("court", so to speak), but polar pilots who glorified themselves by concrete deeds and dearly loved by all the Soviet people.

Official historiography claims that the first Soviet Antarctic stations were founded only in the early 50s, but the CIA had completely different data, which for some reason have not been completely declassified to this day. And let ufologists around the world unanimously repeat that Rear Admiral Richard Baird in 1947 suffered significant losses from some mysterious "flying saucers" made by the Nazis using the technology of mythical aliens, but now we have every reason to believe that that American planes were rebuffed by exactly the same planes, made according to the same, namely American technologies! But more on that later.

Studying some moments in the history of the Russian Navy, at some stage one can come across quite interesting things regarding some ships of the Soviet Navy, in particular the Pacific Fleet, which, although they were part of this very fleet, however, starting from 1945 in the waters of the "mother country" appeared so rarely that a completely legitimate question arose about the places of their true base. For the first time this question was raised "on the shield" in 1996 in the almanac "Shipbuilding in the USSR" by the famous seascape writer from Sevastopol Arkady Zattets. It was about three Project 45 destroyers - "Vysokiy", "Important" and "Impressive". The destroyers were built in 1945 using captured technologies used by the Japanese in the design of their Fubuki-class destroyers, intended for sailing in the harsh conditions of the northern and Arctic seas.

"... Above many facts from the very short life of these ships," writes Zattetz, "for more than half a century there has been an impenetrable veil of silence. None of the experts in the history of the Russian fleet and none of the well-known collectors of naval photography have a single (!) photos or diagrams where these ships would be depicted in equipped version.Moreover, in the CGA (Central State Archive) of the Navy there are no documents (for example, an act of exclusion from the fleet) confirming the very fact of service. topics in both domestic and foreign naval literature (both public, that is, popular, and official) mention the enlistment of these ships in the Pacific Fleet ...

Project 45 destroyers, later named Vysokiy, Vazhnijny and Impressive, were built in Komsomolsk-on-Amur at Plant 199, completed and tested at Plant 202 in Vladivostok. They entered the combat structure of the fleet in January-June 1945, but did not take any part in the hostilities against Japan (in August of the same year). In December 1945, all three ships made short visits to Qingdao and Chifu (China) ... And then solid riddles begin.

Based on fragmentary data (needing unconditional verification), we managed to find out the following. In February 1946, at the plant 202 on three new destroyers, work began on re-equipment according to project 45 bis - strengthening the hull and installing additional equipment for navigation in difficult conditions at high latitudes. On the destroyer Vysokiy, the keel structures were altered in order to provide increased stability, on the Vyazny, the bow turrets were dismantled and a hangar for four seaplanes and a catapult were installed instead. There is a version (also in need of verification) that the destroyer "Impressive" during the testing of the captured German missile system KR-1 (ship missile) sank an experimental target ship - the former captured Japanese destroyer "Suzuki" of the "Fubuki" type. According to again unverified data, in June 1946, all three destroyers were undergoing minor repairs, but already in a completely different part of the world - at the Argentine naval base of Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego. Then one of the destroyers, accompanied by a submarine (many researchers believe that it was K-103 under the command of the famous "underwater ace of the Northern Fleet" A. G. Cherkasov) was allegedly seen off the coast of the French island of Kerguelen, located in the southern part of the Indian Ocean .. .

A wide variety of rumors circulated and still circulate around the activities of these three destroyers, however, these rumors have always remained just rumors. As you can see, since the middle of 1945, everything related to the history of this division of the "Flying Dutchmen" of the Soviet Navy is inaccurate, vague, indefinite ... There is not a single reliable image of any of these ships, although they were all based in Vladivostok, where in all years (even those!) there was no shortage of those who wanted to capture the ship on film, but nevertheless we do not have realistic images of "Tall", "Important" and "Impressive". In contrast to this fact, we can cite the example of the destroyers of project 46-bis (a modernized version of project 45) "Stable" and "Courageous", which were under construction and were enrolled in the Pacific Fleet almost simultaneously with the destroyers of project 45-bis, and shortly after that were also photographed from different angles, and all the documentation on them was preserved ... according to the project 45 bis - complete silence and uncertainty. As if from the middle of 1945 these ships did not exist. Only in the 5th journal "History of the Navy" for 1993, in a rather good article by G. A. Barsov, devoted to the post-war projects of domestic destroyers, in three lines (again - vaguely) mentions the mysterious trinity ...

(To be continued)

In 1946-47, the United States conducted the Highjump Antarctic Expedition, led by renowned polar explorer and retired Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. In connection with this expedition, there are conspiracy theories that it was carried out in order to eliminate Nazi bases, fight aliens - the occult allies of the Nazis, etc. In particular, it is worth mentioning the words of the expedition members, who stated that they were attacked by disc-shaped objects that emitted certain rays, which caused the ships and planes of the Americans to simply light up.

Operation High Jump was disguised as an ordinary research expedition, and not everyone guessed that a powerful naval squadron was heading to the shores of Antarctica. An aircraft carrier, 13 ships of various types, 25 aircraft and helicopters, more than four thousand people, a six-month supply of food - these data speak for themselves.

It would seem that everything went according to plan: 49 thousand photographs were taken in a month. And suddenly something happened, about which the US authorities are silent until now. On March 3, 1947, the expedition that had just begun was urgently turned off, and the ships hurriedly headed home. In May 1948, some details surfaced on the pages of the European magazine Brizant. It was reported that the expedition met stiff resistance from the enemy. Were lost: at least one ship, dozens of people, four combat aircraft, nine more aircraft had to be left as unusable. What exactly happened can only be guessed at. According to the press, the crew members who dared to reminisce spoke of “flying discs” that “surfaced from under the water” and attacked them, about strange atmospheric phenomena that caused mental disorders. Journalists cite an excerpt from a report by Richard Byrd, allegedly made at a secret meeting of a special commission:

The US needs to take defensive actions against enemy fighters flying out of the polar regions. In the event of a new war, America could be attacked by an enemy that has the ability to fly from one pole to another with incredible speed!

Almost ten years later, Admiral Byrd led a new polar expedition, in which he died under mysterious circumstances. After his death, information appeared in the press allegedly from the diary of the admiral himself. It follows from them that during the 1947 expedition, the plane on which he flew out for reconnaissance was forced to land by strange aircraft, "similar to British soldiers' helmets." A tall, blond, blue-eyed man approached the admiral and, in broken English, delivered an appeal to the American government demanding an end to nuclear testing. Some of the sources claim that after this meeting, an agreement was signed between the Nazi colony in Antarctica and the American government to exchange German advanced technologies for American raw materials.

Indirect confirmation of the existence of the base is called repeated sightings of UFOs in the area of the South Pole. Often they see “plates” and “cigars” hanging in the air. And in 1976, Japanese researchers, using the latest equipment, simultaneously spotted nineteen round objects that "dived" from space to Antarctica and disappeared from the screens.

The history of "Baza-211" originates from the German expedition of 1938/39 on the ship "Schwabenland" under the command of an experienced pilot, polar explorer Captain Alfred Ritscher. Arriving at the shores of Queen Maud Land in January 1939, previously declared by the Norwegians as their possessions, the expedition began systematically photographing the territory using two Dornier seaplanes that were on board the ship. Within a month, the Müliga-Hofmann Mountains, the Schirmacher Oasis, and other geographical objects were discovered. The territory surveyed, no less than a lot, amounted to 250,000 square meters. km. (almost half the area of Germany).

At that time, the expedition did not create any secret base like the Vinnitsa "Werwolf" or the Smolensk "Berenhalle" - for this it had neither the strength, nor the necessary building materials, nor the personnel. But this expedition marked the beginning of the development of Antarctica by the Third Reich. The territory filmed and staked out with pennants with a swastika was called New Swabia and declared the possessions of the Third Reich.

Map of New Swabia (clickable)

The ships of the submarine fleet of Grand Admiral K. Dönitz, specially equipped for navigation in the polar latitudes, began to go to Antarctica. Continuing research in the Schirmacher Oasis area, German scientists discovered a system of caves with warm air. “My submariners have discovered a true earthly paradise,” Dönitz said at the time. For several years, the Germans carried out carefully concealed work to create a base under the code name "Baza-211". Mining equipment, railroads, trolleys and huge cutters for tunneling were sent to the polar continent. At least 8 "thick" cargo submarines of type XIV "Milchkuh" were built for the delivery of goods. This allowed the same Grand Admiral to throw out the phrase: “Die deutsche U-Boot Flotte ist stolz darauf, daß sie fur den Fuhrer in einem anderen Teil der Welt ein Shangri-La gebaut hat, eine uneinnehmbare Festung” (“The German submarine fleet is proud the fact that on the other side of the world he created for the Fuhrer the impregnable fortress of Shangri-La”).

The "thickest" in the German submarine fleet were the Type XIV "Milchkuh" ("Cash Cows") submarines, which served as supply boats in the Atlantic. They provided combat submarines with fuel, spare parts, ammunition, medicines, food. A total of 10 Type XIV submarines were built. All of them were sunk, and the coordinates of the death of each are known. They could not be those "large cargo submarines", but boats like these, secretly built, could be used for flights to "Base-211".

There were no fundamental obstacles to the creation of such an underground base. Many of Germany's largest factories, such as the Junkers factory in the Nordhausen mountain, were located underground, in salt mines and dug tunnels and adits. Such factories successfully withstood any bombardment and usually stopped working only when enemy ground forces approached.

Since 1942, thousands of concentration camp prisoners were transferred to Baza-211 as labor force, as well as service personnel, scientists and members of the Hitler Youth - the gene pool of the future "pure" race.

According to some reports, Hitler and his wife Eva Braun did not commit suicide, but lived to old age under the ice of the South Pole, and according to other sources - in a secluded refuge in South America.

Relatively recently, it became known that during the Second World War there was a top-secret connection of German submarines, called the Fuhrer's Convoy. It included 35 submarines that were engaged in the delivery of secret cargo to Antarctica and other hidden places. At the very end of the war in Kiel, the weapons were removed from the submarines and containers were loaded with some things, documents. In April 1945, the last flights of submarines to Base-211 were made. Where they then went is still unknown. Only two of them, U-977 and U-530, found themselves in July - August 1945 in Argentina. In July 1945, Lieutenant Otto Wermuth's U-530 showed up off the coast of Argentina and surrendered to the Argentine authorities on July 10 in Mar del Plata. On August 17, U-977 of Lieutenant Heinz Schaeffer surrendered there. Later, Stefner will write a book of memoirs about the last campaign. But there is not a single hint of a mission to Antarctica in it.

The crews were arrested. The submarine commanders were interrogated by the Americans. “One of the main reasons for the decision to sail to Argentina was German propaganda,” Heinz Schaeffer said during interrogation. “We were told that American and British newspapers were writing that after the war all German men should be enslaved and sterilized. Another reason was the mistreatment of German prisoners of war who were kept in France after the end of the First World War, the long delay in sending them home. And, of course, we hoped for better living conditions in Argentina.”

There is no other information about Hitler. It can be added that the piece of Hitler's skull, carefully kept in the KGB archives, turned out not to be his at all, but someone else, possibly a doppelgänger.

This theory largely explains the facts of numerous contacts with German-speaking flying saucer teams that have taken place since then and are still happening today. The first encounters with UFOs by people like George Adamski (one of the most famous UFO contactors in the US, observed numerous UFOs during the war years, died in 1965) were described as encounters with tall, blond, Nordic (and in some cases speaking German!) people. It is possible that these were contacts with the Germans, and not with aliens like us. It is also possible that a secret Antarctic base exists to this day.

Rumors about a German Antarctic base have been circulating for years, and not one group of explorers has disappeared into the area without leaving a trace. Historian and publicist Vladimir Terzitsky tells the details about the German colony at the South Pole:

The Germans began exploration of the South Pole with huge aircraft carrier cruisers in 1937. The Schwabenland ship was sent to Queen Maud Land, south of South Africa, where the Germans immediately dropped their swastika flags from the planes and claimed the rights of the Third Reich to these lands, the area of \u200b\u200bwhich is comparable to that of Western Europe. They named this country New Schwabenland (New Swabia). In 1942, a massive covert operation to transfer people and materials to a secret underground base was carried out with the participation of the German marines. This base was to be the last bastion of the Reich. Several hundred thousand concentration camp prisoners, as well as scientists and members of the Hitler Youth, were transferred to the South Pole (using submarines) and to actively colonized lands in South America to continue the Nazi experiment in creating a pure race of supermen - "superhumans". It is said that today, under the South Pole, there is a huge underground city with a population of two million called - yes, you guessed it - New Berlin. The main occupation of its inhabitants today is genetic engineering and space flights. Admiral Byrd is rumored to have secretly met with the leaders of the German Antarctic colony in 1947 after his inglorious defeat and signed a treaty of peaceful coexistence between the Nazi colony of Germans under the South Pole and the US government and the exchange of German advanced technology for ... American raw materials.

For more details on the Nazi base at the South Pole and their spaceflight-capable vehicles, see Man-Made UFOs: 1944-1994 by Renato Vesco and David Hatcher Childress. It analyzes in the most detailed way the features of the first years of research on disc-shaped flying vehicles.

Some sources claim that towards the end of World War II, the Germans managed to develop interplanetary aircraft without moving parts that could fly to the Moon and even Mars. Some scientists cite videos and print articles to prove that the Germans did indeed fly there either at the end of the war or immediately after it, and the flights were made from their Antarctic base.

A number of military historians, such as Colonel Howard Bucher, author of "The Secrets of Hitler's Holy Spear and Ashes", insist that the Germans had already established bases in Queen Maud Land during the war. Subsequently, German U-class submarines (according to some reports there were at least 100 of them) took on board outstanding scientists, pilots and politicians and delivered them to the last fortress of Nazi Germany. Presumably, there were other Nazi bases in remote areas of South America, possibly in the mountain jungle and in the fjord region in southern Chile. According to the book by the German journalist Carl Brugger, The Chronicles of Akakora, one German battalion nevertheless found refuge in an underground city on the border of Brazil and Peru. Karl lived in Manaos and was killed in Ipanema, a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, in 1981.

US Navy Expedition

The expedition was conceived by the leadership of the US Navy based, most likely, on the political and economic situation that prevailed in the country after the end of World War II. Before the war, the country was unable to fully recover from the Great Depression. The war slowed down this process. At the same time, Lend-Lease supplies (which were not free of charge), participation in hostilities (the second front, the Pacific theater of operations) kept the economy afloat through military government orders. But now the war is over. The USSR still seems to be an ally of the USA, Churchill's speech in Fulton has not yet been made, the arms race has not yet begun. There is no need for a state order for armaments, and there are no worthy tasks for army units, in particular, for the US Navy. Most warships are idle. The morale of the Marines, sailors and officers is falling. And here, probably, the command of the Navy came up with a good idea - to equip an expedition to Antarctica.

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (pictured) instructed the development of The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, and his deputy Vice Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey gave appropriate directives to the Commanders-in-Chief of the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets. The implementation of the expedition was entrusted to the Task Force 68 of the Special Tasks of the Atlantic Fleet. The group was assigned several ships of the Pacific Fleet. The project was given the code name "Operation Highjump" (Operation High Jump). The operation was led by the commander of Task Force 68, Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzen. And at the head of the expedition itself was retired Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, an experienced polar explorer, a legendary person in the United States and not only.

So, the American expedition of the US Navy in 1946-47 is really very unusual because of its scale - it was and remains the largest ever to work on the Sixth Continent. The expedition was attended by 13 US warships with a total tonnage of almost 174 thousand tons, 19 aircraft, including seaplanes and flying boats, helicopters, not to mention sled dogs. In total, about 4,700 people participated in the expedition. The main scientific goal was the establishment of the Antarctic research station "Little America IV".

The official composition of the expeditionary squadron was divided into 4 groups, and the deceased destroyer Murdoch was removed from its composition:

Western Group (Task Force 68.1)

Leader: Captain 1st Rank C. Bond.

Currituck Seaplane Base - U.S.S Seaplane tender Currituck (AV-7)
Displacement 14,000 tons. Commissioned June 26, 1944. Captain 1st Rank John E. Clark

USS Henderson - U.S.S. Henderson (DD-785)
Displacement 3,460 tons. Commissioned November 17, 1945. Captain 1st Rank C. Bailey (C.F. Bailey)

Tanker Kakapon - U.S.S. Cacapon (AO-52)
Displacement 25,500 tons. Commissioned September 21, 1943. Captain 1st Rank R. Mitchell (R.A. Mitchell)

Central Group (Task Force 68.2)

Leader: Rear Admiral R. Kruzen.

Highjump Flagship, Mount Olympus Control Landing Craft - U.S.S. Mount Olimpus (AGC-8)
Displacement 12 142 tons. Commissioned October 3, 1943. Captain 1st Rank R. Moore (R.R. Moore)

Landing craft Yancy - U.S.S. Yancey (AKA-93)
Displacement 13,910 tons. Commissioned October 11, 1944. Captain 1st Rank J. E. Cohn

Landing craft Merrick - U.S.S. Merrick (AKA-97)
Same type as AKA-93. Captain 1st Rank John J. Hourihan

Submarine Sennet - U.S.S. Submarine Sennet (SS-408)
Displacement 2 391 tons. Commissioned 22 August 1944
Captain 2nd Rank J. Eisenhower (Joseph B. Icenhower)

Icebreaker Barton Island - U.S.S. Burton Island (AG-88)
Displacement 6 515 tons. Commissioned April 30, 1946. Captain 2nd Rank J. Ketchum (Gerald L. Ketchum)

Icebreaker Northwind - USCGC Northwind (WAG-282)
Displacement 6 515 tons. Commissioned on July 28, 1945. Captain 1st Rank C. Thomas

Eastern Group (Task Force 68.3)

Leader: Captain 1st Rank J. Dufek.

USS Brownson - U.S.S. Brownson (DD-868)
Displacement 9,090 tons. Commissioned 7 July 1945. Captain 2nd Rank G. Gimber (H.M.S. Gimber)

Pine Island Seaplane Base - U.S.S. Pine Island (AV-12)
The USS Currituck (AV-7) is of the same type. Commissioned April 26, 1945. Captain 1st Rank G. Caldwell

Tanker "Canisteo" - U.S.S. Canisteo (AO-99)
Displacement 25,440 tons. Commissioned 6 July 1945. Captain 1st Rank E. Walker (Edward K. Walker)

Carrier Group (Task Force 68.4)

Leader: Retired Rear Admiral R. Byrd.

Escort aircraft carrier Philippine Sea - U.S.S. Philippine Sea (CV-47)
Displacement: 27,100 tons. Length 271 meters. Commissioned May 11, 1946. Captain 1st Rank D. Cornwell
Takes on board up to 100 aircraft, went on an expedition with 6 R4D Skytrains aircraft

Photo taken aboard the U.S.S. Philippine Sea in the Panama Canal, en route to Antarctica

Base Group (Task Force 68.5)

Leader: Captain 1st Rank K. Campbell.

Base Little America IV.

Footage of the construction of the Little America IV base.

Below are the sleeve patches of the members of the expedition. The first patch was used by members of the Special Task Force (Task Force 68). The second patch was used by members of the amphibious assault ship Yancey and contained the inscription "The whole world is our foothold" - a very revealing motto for the US military.

According to a US Navy report, the purpose of the expedition was:

Personnel training and equipment testing in the Antarctic cold.
Declaration of US sovereignty over the practically achievable territories of Antarctica (this goal was officially denied even after the end of the expedition).
Finding out the feasibility of founding, maintaining and using Antarctic stations and exploring suitable areas for this.
Development of technologies for the establishment, maintenance and use of Antarctic stations on the ice sheet, with particular attention to the further application of these technologies in the interior of Greenland.
Expansion of knowledge in the field of hydrography, geography, geology, meteorology, propagation of electromagnetic waves in the Antarctic.
Continuation of the research started by the Nanook expedition in Greenland.

Some Matten and Friedrich in 1975 published materials where the additional goal of the expedition was indicated: “To break the last desperate attempt of resistance by Adolf Hitler. If we find him and his henchmen in the New Berchenstag, inside New Swabia, in the area of Queen Maud Land, we will destroy them."

Be that as it may, but on December 12, 1946, the Western Group reached the Marquesas Islands, where the destroyer Henderson and the tanker Kakapon established meteorological stations. On December 24, air reconnaissance aircraft began to take off from the Kurritak seaplane base. At the end of December 1946, the Eastern Group reached Peter I Island. On January 1, 1947, Captain 3rd Rank Thompmon and Senior Warrant Officer Dixon, using Jack Brown masks and oxygen apparatus, made the first dive in the history of the United States in Antarctic waters.

William Menster, who served as the expedition's chaplain, became the first priest to visit Antarctica. During a service held in 1947, he consecrated this continent.

On January 15, 1947, the Central Group arrived in the Bay of Whales, where they built a temporary airstrip on the glacier and established the Little America IV station.

According to Richard Byrd and many members of the expedition, the Americans were attacked by devices resembling "flying saucers". One of the expedition members, John Syerson, recalled:

They jumped out of the water like crazy and literally slipped between the masts of the ships at such a speed that the radio antennas were torn by streams of disturbed air. A few "corsairs" managed to take off, but compared to these strange aircraft, they looked like hobbled ones.
I didn’t even have time to blink an eye, as two “corsairs”, struck by some unknown rays that splashed from the bows of these “flying saucers”, dug into the water near the ships ... These objects did not make a single sound, they silently rushed between the ships, like some kind of satanic, blue-black swallows with blood-red beaks, and continuously spitting deadly fire.
Suddenly, the Murdoch, which was ten cables from us (about two kilometers), blazed with a bright flame and began to sink.
From other ships, despite the danger, lifeboats and boats were immediately sent to the crash site. When our "pancakes" (XF-5U "Skimmer"), shortly before that, relocated to the coastal airfield, flew into the battle area, they could not do anything either. The whole nightmare lasted about twenty minutes. When the "flying saucers" again dived under the water, we began to count the losses. They were horrendous...

According to Admiral Byrd himself, these amazing aircraft must have been produced at Nazi aircraft factories camouflaged in the thickness of the Antarctic ice, the designers of which mastered some unknown energy used in the engines of these vehicles.

Few people know, but there were Russian-speaking witnesses in this story. One of the participants in the events was Konstantin Yalyarashkovsky, and this is how he explained his stay on the expedition:

During the Great Patriotic War, like all boys, I dreamed of going to the front. He even “added” almost two years to himself, and by the beginning of 1945 he managed to finish an accelerated course for junior naval signal officers in Kronstadt. However, he almost did not participate in serious hostilities - the war ended. The command drew attention to my knowledge of languages (thanks to my parents-teachers, I spoke English, German and French) and sent me to the allies - to the coordination group at the main headquarters of the US Navy. At the end of 1946, the Americans included us with Colonel Yuri Popovich in the squadron of Rear Admiral Richard Byrd.

The story of Konstantin Yalyarashkovsky about what happened during the attack on the ships of the expedition:

Officially, we went on a "research expedition" to Antarctica to evaluate and explore its minerals. But what struck us was that the squadron included: an aircraft carrier with combat aircraft (fighters, bombers, attack aircraft and reconnaissance aircraft), destroyers, minesweepers, a couple of submarines, tankers, marines. The voyage was long, and Yuri and I simply languished with longing and idleness. Only in the evenings did the officers gather in the cabin of the aircraft carrier and take their souls away: they played cards, smoked, drank, and talked. Moreover, as we have seen, none of them really understood where and why we were going.
Once, the captain of the destroyer Murdoch, Cyrus Lafargue, with whom we became friends, mentioned over a glass that he accidentally heard the phrase of Admiral Richard Byrd that the crews of two German submarines that arrived from Antarctica had surrendered to the Allied forces in Argentina. Our tipsy company immediately put forward a version with a laugh: they say, we are going to look for fascist bases at the South Pole. Complete nonsense. Although there were many myths then. They talked about the fact that the escaped fascists built huge cities for themselves in South America, settled in ... space, live underground somewhere in the Alps.
More recently, a film about the attack on Byrd's squadron was shown on television, but it is largely inaccurate, and the directors fantasized something. They attacked us, if my memory serves me, on January 27th. Yuri and I stood on the bridge - talking, smoking. Then they heard the cry of the observer: “Air! To starboard!" And immediately the alarm sounded. About a dozen unknown aircraft were rapidly approaching us literally above the water itself (and not emerging from it, as the TV reporters claimed!) About a dozen unknown aircraft. In a few seconds they were already above the squadron and went on the attack!
They were strange disc-shaped cars with … fascist crosses on their sides. And this is almost two years after the victory over Germany!
The speed and maneuverability of the vehicles were simply amazing! They fired some kind of red beams. Maybe it was some kind of prototype of a modern laser weapon? The beams easily pierced the thick ship armor, while the enemy "disks" could change their course unthinkably, moving away from the hurricane fire of our anti-aircraft guns, and even ... hover over us! Several F-4 fighters slowly rose from the deck of the aircraft carrier, but they did not have time to join the battle. They were burned right there! The Americans tried several more times to lift a couple of air units into the air, but this was also unsuccessful. I had to shoot back only with anti-aircraft guns.
Yura and I brought cartridges to heavy machine guns. Before our eyes, a red beam tore off the black gunner's hand and burned the deck. The aircraft carrier received significant damage, but then the enemy for some reason "lagged behind" us and transferred the entire attack force to the destroyer "Murdoch". A terrible picture - they literally burned it! Fire, explosions, screams, shooting, sailors began to lower lifeboats ...
By the way, the film claimed that the "discs" allegedly used some kind of psychic weapon in that battle - "the sailors clutched their heads in pain with their hands." It wasn't! It's just that the roar of the "saucer" engines above our heads was so powerful that it caused severe pain in the ears. I experienced something similar when a modern jet combat aircraft took off nearby.
The fight lasted ten minutes. As soon as the destroyer sank, the “disks”, without touching other ships, boats and lifeboats, just as quickly rushed low above the water beyond the horizon.
We were all stunned by what happened! The losses of the Americans amounted to the sunk destroyer "Murdoch", about ten fighters and several hundred dead sailors. There were even more wounded. "Disks" damaged the ships, especially our aircraft carrier. For a couple of days we were repairing at an emergency pace. At this time, the number of observers was significantly increased, the surviving aircraft continuously conducted long-range aerial reconnaissance, and duty officers were around the anti-aircraft guns around the clock. Fortunately, everything was calm.
In early March, we headed to the place where the ships are based in the United States. After the return of the aircraft carrier put on a major overhaul. As far as I know, none of the American sailors gave any "non-disclosure agreement". Rear Admiral Richard Byrd reported the incident to the command and congressmen. Yuri and I returned to Moscow and personally reported on the American expedition to Rear Admiral Ivan Papanin and Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces Nikolai Kuznetsov. They listened to us attentively, talked to each other, and… that was the end of it. Whether they reported to Stalin, whether they sent Soviet ships to Antarctica - I don’t know ...

The next day, as Syerson said further, Richard Byrd went on reconnaissance in a twin-engine Tigercat fighter and disappeared along with his pilot and navigator. When the news of this reached Washington, Admiral Stark, Bird's deputy, was ordered to immediately turn off the expedition and, observing complete radio silence, head back to the States without any calls to intermediate naval bases. Some time later, Richard Bird returned and again led the command of the expedition. What exactly happened to him - then he did not tell anyone, and we can judge what happened only from his diary, written years later.

The results of the expedition were in fact immediately classified, and all its participants were forced to sign a wide variety of non-disclosure documents. And, nevertheless, something leaked to the press even then, which can be judged at least from articles in the Savannah newspaper Adventure or Chicago publications.

Return of the expedition

The expedition returned to the United States at the end of February 1947 due to the early onset of the Antarctic winter and deteriorating weather conditions.

While still aboard Mount Olympus, Byrd was interviewed by Lee van Atta of the International News Service, where he talked about the lessons of the expedition. The interview was published on March 5, 1947 in the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio. In it, he, in particular, said that the United States should make efforts to provide protection against attack by enemy aircraft from the polar regions. The speed with which distances in the world are shrinking is one of the lessons of this polar expedition.

When the American squadron finally reached its shores and the fate of the expedition was reported to the command, all its participants - both officers and sailors - were isolated. Only Admiral Byrd remained at large. However, he was forbidden to meet with journalists.

The United States government categorically denies the admiral's revelations, and he himself was declared mentally ill and subjected to compulsory psychiatric treatment. Byrd was interrogated in the presence of a doctor, everything said was transferred to the American president. The admiral was ordered to "keep silent about everything he learned, in the name of humanity." Regarding the information leaked from the team, it was publicly said that it was all the result of a nervous breakdown. Officials took care of the misinformation of the press and the public. The names of the persons participating in the expedition have been changed. Information about human losses and losses of equipment was refuted. We paid attention to the fact that thanks to the expedition, maps of 1,390,000 km² of the coast of Antarctica were compiled. Several statements were also issued by the authorities about those events, saying that only one person died, whose plane had an accident. Everyone participating in the expedition, under the threat of sanctions, had to keep a secret.

Then Bird began to write memoirs about this period of his life. It was not possible to publish the manuscript, but it fell into the "high spheres". Byrd was dismissed, moreover, declared insane. In recent years, the admiral lived practically under house arrest, did not communicate with anyone, could not even see his former colleagues.

Shortly after the end of the operation, the next expedition was organized under the name "Operation Windmill" (1948), which conducted aerial photography of the same territories of Antarctica. Finn Ronne financed this private expedition.

The Secret of Richard Byrd's Diary

Although there is no proof of the authenticity of the diary, the information on its pages is shocking. Richard Bird wrote: "This is amazing, it might seem crazy if it had not actually happened."

The flight, which began on February 19, 1947 at 6:10 local time, did not portend anything unusual, and for the first four hours everything went according to plan. At some point, however, the on-board equipment stopped working, and in the place where the icy desert should have been, the pilot saw valleys overgrown with trees. Animals like mammoths grazed in the valley, something resembling a city could be seen not far away! It was light, although there was no sun in the sky. Bird tried to contact the base, but was unsuccessful.

Suddenly, strange disc-shaped aircraft appeared next to the plane. The Dakota aircraft stopped responding to control, the test equipment was useless. A voice came over the radio, speaking in English with a German accent, barely audible: “Welcome Mr. Admiral to our kingdom. Please relax, you are in good hands."

Bird's plane was brought to the ground in such a way that the pilot suffered only a slight shaking during landing. Several people came to greet him. They were tall and blond. Byrd was led to the inside of one of the buildings, and one of the men said, "Don't be afraid Admiral, you will have an audience with the Master." In the diary, this "Master" is described as a person with delicate features, touched by the passage of time.

Further discussion, during which the Master raised all the main questions concerning our civilization, passed in a friendly atmosphere. The Master said goodbye to Byrd, ordering him to return to his world to spread the message given to him. The last words that Bird heard when he took off were: "We will leave you here, Admiral, your equipment is working, Auf Wiedersehen." And again the admiral flew over the icy desert.

What happened during the expedition? Until now, the general public does not know what happened then in the ice. But we know that in 1954 the US Joint Chiefs of Staff issued an order for the next expedition to Antarctica. Admiral Bird was declared mentally healthy by order of Eisenhower and was appointed commander of the expedition. The operation was codenamed Deep Freeze. This time, the Americans did not hide the fact that this expedition was military, and even the use of nuclear weapons was possible.

The operation was completed in 1957. In the same year, Admiral Richard Byrd died. Nobody remembered the famous polar hero then.

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The article deals with the circumstances surrounding the Antarctic expedition of Richard Byrd in 1946-1947. We are talking about eyewitness accounts of that expedition, about the rear admiral's logbook, which appeared recently and raises doubts about its authenticity.

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Regarding the secrets that allegedly surround the Antarctic expedition of Richard Byrd in 1946-1947, there is also a very skeptical opinion, the essence of which is that no emergencies were observed during its course. It’s just that people love everything mysterious, mysterious, and therefore they strive to find “conspiracy theories” even where they don’t exist.

It would be quite possible to agree with such an approach, if not for a number of very strange moments.
Perhaps the most embarrassing is the very fragment of Bird's diary, given in the fourth part of the "Battle for Antarctica", which roams both in Russian and in a foreign language Internet. This embarrassment lies in the fact that so far - and more than 60 years have passed since the completion of the Fourth Antarctic Expedition of the United States! - the origin of the notorious fragment of the diary is still unclear.

In Runet, you can find links to the testimonies of the wife of the famous Rear Admiral, who, it seems, read his logbook. From these records of Bird, which became known as if from the words of his wife, it follows that during the Antarctic expedition of 1946-1947 he came into contact with representatives of a certain civilization, which was far ahead of the earth in its development. Residents of the Antarctic country have mastered new types of energy that allow you to start vehicle engines, get food, electricity and heat literally from nothing. Representatives of the Antarctic world informed Bird that they were trying to make contact with humanity, but people were extremely hostile towards them. However, "brothers in mind" are still ready to help humanity, but only if the world is on the verge of self-destruction.

When Richard Byrd reported on what he saw and heard, he was ordered in Washington not to dwell on these topics too much. Rear Admiral did not spread. According to Mrs. Bird, he filmed the events of the last trip (it is not clear which one: 1946-1947, or 1955-1957? - Consp.) and described in detail in his secret diaries, the location of which is is not known to this day.

In his book The Last Battalion and German Arctic, Antarctic and Andean Bases, Gorman, California: The German Research Project, 1997, American researcher Henry Stevens rightly remarks: “Instead of eight months, the expedition (1946-1947 - Consp.) lasted only eight weeks. There was no official explanation for such a hasty cessation of work."

Moreover, foreign researchers - in particular, Joseph Farrell - note the fact that after Byrd's return to the United States and his report in Washington, all expedition journals and rear admiral's personal diaries were seized and classified. They remain classified to this day, which, of course, feeds an endless stream of rumors and speculation. It’s clear why: if Richard Byrd’s diaries have remained classified for more than 60 years, then there is something to hide.

Expedition of Richard Byrd. eyewitness accounts

However, there are quite direct eyewitness accounts of what happened during the Fourth Antarctic Expedition of the United States in 1946-1947. Henry Stevens in the study mentioned above provides the following data. In order to give credibility to the version of the exclusively scientific goals of this expedition of Richard Byrd, a small group of journalists from different countries was included in its composition. Among them was Lee Van Atta, a correspondent for the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, based in Santiago. In the issue dated March 5, 1947, signed by van Att, a short article was published in which the words of Rear Admiral were quoted.

“Today, Admiral Byrd told me that the United States must take effective measures to protect against enemy aircraft from the polar regions. He further explained that he had no intention of scaring anyone, but the bitter reality was that in the event of a new war, the United States would be attacked by aircraft flying at fantastic speed from one pole to another.

As for the recent termination of the expedition, Bird stated that its most important result is the identification of the potential effect that the observations and discoveries made in the course of it will have on the security of the United States.

Russian authors of recent years have repeatedly expressed the opinion that the country that could pose a potential threat to the United States was the Soviet Union (the reality of this hypothesis will be considered in the final articles of the "Antarctic" cycle).

However, a number of Western researchers believe that in the mid-1940s there was only one country in the world that conducted serious and large-scale exploration of the southern polar continent: Nazi Germany. It must be said that there are very reasonable grounds for such hypotheses.
... In 2008, the Moscow publishing house "Eksmo" published a book by the American author Joseph Farrell (Joseph P. Farrell) "The Black Sun of the Third Reich. The battle for the weapons of retaliation” (“Reich of the Black Sun. Nazi secret weapons amp; the cold war allied legend”), which I highly recommend to all those who are interested in the “Antarctic” theme and the developments of the III Reich in the field of the latest technologies. In the preface, Joseph Farrell takes the bull by the horns from the very first lines: “As a teenager, I was fond of the history of the Second World War, especially the European theater of operations and the race for possession of the atomic bomb.

At the same time, I became seriously interested in physics, and after reading the history books, another haunting thought stuck in my head: the United States never tested the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima. There was something wrong here...

Then the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, and the two post-war Germanys rushed towards reunification. I remember that day well, because I was then driving in a car with a friend through Manhattan. My friend was a native of Russia, and among his relatives were veterans of fierce battles on the Eastern Front. Our long discussions about the Second World War have convinced us that much of this war is inexplicable, even if we take into account the bloodthirsty persecution mania that Hitler and Stalin suffered.

Gradually and, I must add, quite predictably, the Germans themselves began to open the hitherto inaccessible archives of East Germany and the Soviet Union. Eyewitnesses spoke, and German authors attempted to consider another aspect of the darkest period in the history of their country. These works have gone largely unnoticed in the United States, both by representatives of the traditional historical school and by those seeking alternative views of history.
However, we will return to the research of Joseph Farrell a little later. In the meantime, let us make a necessary incidental remark.

US Expedition to Antarctica - "Weapon of Retribution" of the Third Reich - "Epidemic" of UFOs
From a traditional point of view, the following fact is generally recognized: Nazi Germany was actively developing new technologies, including in the field of nuclear weapons. But the German scientists and the German economy did not have enough time and resources to bring the research they had begun to their implementation in practice until May 1945. And what was discovered by the allies in the spring and summer of 1945 in defeated Germany is a curious, but, so to speak, demonstration samples of Nazi developments in the field of rocket weapons, new types of aircraft, etc.

Strange, but very few researchers (including Joseph Farrell) pay attention to the fact that lies literally on the surface. Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica was hastily canceled on March 3, 1947. And since mid-May 1947, unidentified flying objects - UFOs - began to be observed in the US sky almost en masse.

In June 1947, flying over the Cascade Mountains during the day, the American Kenneth Arnold (Kenneth Arnold) noticed how his plane overtook nine disk-shaped objects at supersonic speed, several photographs of which the pilot managed to take. Telling the media about this incident, Kenneth called the objects "frying pans", but the journalists picked up the term "plates", which has safely survived to this day.

The apotheosis of the “epidemic” of UFOs over the United States was the so-called incident near the town of Roswell in the state of New Mexico: in early July, an alien UFO (perhaps there were two flying objects) with aliens on board crashed near the city. Historical issue of the local newspaper "Roswell Daily Record"(by the way, the publication continues to be published to this day), which was released on July 8, 1947, in fact, became the beginning of the “UFO era”.

Almost immediately, the United States sent three more expeditions to the coast of Antarctica: in 1947-1948, as well as in 1955-1956 ("Deep Freeze-1") and in 1956-1957 ("Deep Freeze-2"), which formally were also purely scientific in nature.

In 1997, The Day After Roswell by Philip J. Corso and William J. Birns was published by Pocket Books in New York. The book cites the views of retired colonel Philippe Corso, who, analyzing the incident at Roswell in early July 1947, remarks:

“Worse yet, the fact that this vehicle, like other flying saucers, was engaged in surveillance of our defense systems, moreover, it demonstrated the technologies that we saw from the Nazis, and this led the military to assume that these flying saucers have hostile intentions. and, perhaps, even intervened in human affairs during the war.

At the very least, Twining suggested (Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, Chief of Logistics of the US Air Force, author of the secret report to the Chief of Staff of the US Air Force on the Roswell incident of September 23, 1947 - Consp.), This crescent-shaped aircraft was suspicious similar to the German rigid wings that our pilots observed at the end of the war, and this led him to the idea that the Germans stumbled upon something that we are completely unaware of. This is confirmed by Twining's conversations with Wernher von Braun and Willie Lay in Alamogordo shortly after the crash.

German scientists did not want to seem crazy, but in a confidential conversation they admitted that the history of German secret research is much deeper than it seems at first glance.

The study of the UFO phenomenon is, of course, a separate area that has been occupying the hearts and minds of tens and hundreds of thousands of people around the world for more than 60 years. Starting from the second half of the 1980s, when more and more once-secret data that had previously been kept in the closed archives of various countries began to be put into circulation, paradoxically, even more questions began to arise among numerous researchers.

Moreover, researchers from different countries, independently of each other (and especially since the 1990s) began to come to similar conclusions: that technological and other research of the Third Reich, the secrets of the Antarctic expeditions, the “epidemic” of UFOs are all links in one chain. Answering the question - what could the US Government hide in connection with research in Antarctica? - you need to answer another question in parallel: what technologies could the American military discover (or receive instead) in defeated Germany in 1945?

Expedition of Richard Byrd. cover operation

Documents of a secret memorandum called "Majestic-12", are well known in ufological circles. It is believed that we are talking about top secret materials of the American military department, dedicated to the study of the disaster near Roswell in 1947 and its consequences. For a number of years in the media, and especially in UFO circles, dosed information from the package of “secret documents” of the Majestic-12 project was carefully thrown. At the same time, there is no consensus among ufologists regarding the authenticity and reliability of these documents. And it's understandable why.

Project X-Files "Majestic-12" were thrown into the public agenda by two parties. Moreover, decades after the Roswell incident. In December 1984, a cassette of undeveloped 35mm film was mailed to the home of American director and producer Jamie Shander. The sender was not specified, and the postmark imprint showed that the shipment was made in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When the film was developed, it contained 8 documents from the materials of the so-called secret project. "Majestic-12".

10 years later, in March 1994, through ufologists Don Berliner and Timothy Cooper, under similar circumstances, a second batch of photocopies of the "top secret" documents of the project was thrown "Majestic-12".

From the very beginning, Stanton Friedman, a well-known and respected ufologist in the United States, joined the study of the documents received, who in 1996 published a book called Top Secret / Majic in the New York publishing house Marlowe and Company. Friedman very cautiously approached the question of the authenticity of documents that appeared, as could be understood from their contents, from the depths of some secret departments. As a result, this ufologist put forward three possible versions of the authenticity of the materials received.

First: documents are completely and unconditionally authentic.

Second: documents are authentic in the sense that they could contain partial truth mixed with deliberately false materials.

Third: the documents are absolutely authentic in the sense that they were indeed born in the depths of the military-intelligence community, however, they are intended to clearly misinform public opinion in order to carry out some kind of intricate psychological operation.

Many articles have been written on the topic of the secret documents of the Majestic 12 project, many books have been published and more than one film has been shot. As a result, the idea that on July 2, 1947 near Roswell, an alien ship with aliens on board, really crashed, was firmly entrenched in public opinion. Naturally, all the remains were seized by the American intelligence services and strictly classified, but as a result of a combination of circumstances, some of the secret documents became public.

Analyzing these materials in his book The Black Sun of the Third Reich, Joseph Farrell comes to a completely natural conclusion: the version of the American intelligence services about the extraterrestrial origin of the flying saucer that crashed near Roswell does not stand up to scrutiny upon careful consideration.

Around the same time (late 1980s - mid-1990s) another curious event occurs. Fragments of the secret diary of Rear Admiral Richard Byrd begin to appear in the media, as well as with the help of the increasingly widespread Internet communications. In this text, its author (if, of course, Bird really is the author) speaks in no uncertain terms about his meetings in Antarctica in February 1947 with representatives of some other civilizations.

… In general, the picture is becoming more and more clear. Here are the considerations on this subject, which eight years ago were expressed by a very competent author in his field.

In 2001, a book by the English journalist Nick Cook was published in the UK, which is originally called The Hunt for Zero Point. In Russian translation, it was published as a result of the joint efforts of the Yauza and Eksmo publishing houses in the capital in 2005 under the name “Hunting for the “zero” point”. America's biggest secret since the atomic bomb." Born in 1960, Nicholas Julian Cooke had worked for 15 years in the world famous aviation magazine Jane's Defense Weekly at the time of the book's publication in the UK.

To understand that Cook, due to the specifics of the magazine where he worked, was not prone to ufological fantasies, here is a short quote from his book, which describes the principle of work of Jane's Defense Weekly: “DDU, as we called it for short, was one large portfolio of documents reporting on the machinations of global aerospace science and the defense industry.

Whether you needed to know the thrust-to-weight ratio of a Chinese military aircraft engine, or the pulse rate of an air-jet engine, or the features of a radar system, Jane’s archives were sure to have a publication with the answer. In short, "Jane's" has always been interested only in facts.

Starting an investigation into what really happened in early July 1947 in the vicinity of the American town of Roswell, Nick Cook quickly came to the obvious conclusion: “If you connect Germany and flying saucers, it will be possible not only to solve the mystery of anti-gravity propulsion, but in the process, probably uncover one of the incomprehensible mysteries of the 20th century: the origin of UFOs […].

Apparently, the flying disk demonstrated capabilities so far ahead of its time that the entire program was top-secret, and then hidden in plain sight for almost 60 years - behind the UFO myth.

According to one version, the same principle was implemented by them in the late 1960s, when the first US astronauts landed on the moon. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration was not eager to tell the general public about what, in fact, was discovered on the Earth's satellite during the implementation of the lunar science program.

Therefore, NASA itself organized the second sham flight, which gave reason to believe that American astronauts had never been to the moon: all photographs and filming of US lunar expeditions in the late 1960s and 1970s were falsification and editing. Thus, the public interest for another 40 years turned out to be switched to the discussion of completely different issues.

But what, in this case, were the scientific and technical developments of the III Reich in reality? And what, in fact, was the end of the Second World War?

Sourcewww.razlib.ru

I would have passed by the material, but ... it is still signed by a candidate of historical Sciences. And since science - the degree of trust has slightly increased). And there is no smoke without fire...

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On February 1, 1947, an expedition led by Rear Admiral Richard Byrd landed in Antarctica in the area of Queen Maud Land and set about studying the territory adjacent to the ocean. The studies were designed for 6-8 months. But already at the end of February, all work was suddenly stopped, and the expedition urgently returned to the United States.

The idea of such a naval expedition was born in the autumn of 1945. Divers from the crews of several German submarines interned in Argentina told American intelligence services that before the end of World War II, they allegedly carried out special flights to supply some Nazi base in Antarctica.

The Americans took this information seriously. They decided to send an entire squadron in search of a mysterious base, led by the most experienced polar explorer at that time, Admiral Byrd.

Richard Bird knew Antarctica well. In 1929, the expedition under his leadership founded the base "Little America" in the Bay of Whales.

In 1929, he and his partner made the first flight over the South Pole. In 1939-1941, he undertook an expedition to the west and south of Antarctica: to the area of the Ross barrier, Mary Bird Land, Greim Land, and the Edward VII Peninsula. And when World War II began, Byrd commanded the so-called Greenland Patrol and fought the Nazis in the Arctic.

Admiral Bird is back in Antarctica

At the end of 1946, the admiral was placed at the head of a new military and scientific expedition to Antarctica. The US Navy has allocated serious forces for these purposes: an aircraft carrier, 13 cruisers and destroyers, a submarine, an icebreaker, more than 20 aircraft and helicopters, and only about five thousand personnel.

Within a month, the expedition members managed to take about 50,000 photographs, map several previously unknown mountain plateaus, and equip a new polar station. One of the destroyers conducted a practice bombardment of ice hummocks with torpedoes. And suddenly the Americans were attacked ... by devices resembling "flying saucers". By the way, such a term did not yet exist.

Bird allegedly reported on the radio that after a short battle, an unknown enemy sent truce truants. They were two young men, tall, blond and blue-eyed, dressed in a uniform of leather and fur. One of the parliamentarians in broken English demanded that the Americans urgently, in a couple of hours, leave the area.

tragic collision

Byrd rejected these claims. Then the parliamentarians withdrew towards the snowy ridge and seemed to have vanished into thin air. And an hour or two later, enemy artillery hit the cruisers and destroyers. After 15 minutes, an air attack began. The speed of the enemy aircraft was so great that the Americans, who fired oncoming anti-aircraft fire, only managed to keep the enemy at a distance of aimed fire at the ships.

Expedition member John Syerson many years later recalled: “They jumped out of the water like mad and literally slipped between the masts of the ships at such a speed that radio antennas were tore with streams of disturbed air. Several "corsairs" managed to take off from the "Casablanca", but in comparison with these strange aircraft, they looked like hobbled ones.

I didn’t even have time to blink an eye, as two “corsairs”, struck down by some unknown rays that splashed from the bows of these “flying saucers”, dug into the water near the ships ... These objects did not make a single sound, they silently rushed between the ships, like some kind of satanic, blue-black swallows with blood-red beaks, and continuously spitting deadly fire.

Suddenly, the Murdoch, which was ten cables from us (about two kilometers. - Approx. Aut.), blazed with a bright flame and began to sink. From other ships, despite the danger, lifeboats and boats were immediately sent to the crash site. When our "pancakes" flew into the battle area, shortly before that they were relocated to the coastal airfield, they could not do anything either. The whole nightmare lasted about twenty minutes. When the "flying saucers" again dived under the water, we began to count the losses. They were terrifying…”

By the end of this tragic day, about 400 Americans were killed, about 20 planes and helicopters were shot down, one cruiser and two destroyers were damaged. Losses would have been even greater, but night fell. Admiral Bird in those conditions made the only right decision: to curtail the operation and return home with the whole squadron.

Ufologists today are convinced that alien bases were located in this sector of Antarctica. In any case, the bases of those who controlled these "flying saucers". And the aliens reacted accordingly to the arrival of uninvited guests. It is unlikely that the Germans had aircraft with such crushing weapons then. And the German soldiers themselves, after the surrender of Germany in May 1945, no longer remained in Antarctica. They scattered all over the world, most of them were in Argentina.

When the American squadron finally reached its shores and the fate of the expedition was reported to the command, all its members - both officers and sailors - were isolated. Only Admiral Byrd remained at large. However, he was forbidden to meet with journalists.

Then he began to write memoirs about this period of his life. It was not possible to publish the manuscript, but it fell into the "high spheres". Byrd was dismissed, moreover, declared insane. In recent years, the admiral lived practically under house arrest, did not communicate with anyone, could not even see his former colleagues. He died in 1957. Nobody remembered the famous polar hero then.

New expedition

It must be assumed that in 1947 the top American leadership treated the report of Admiral Byrd with due attention, since in 1948 the 39th operational unit of the US Navy was sent to this area of Antarctica. It was equipped with the latest radar equipment and reinforced with naval special forces. Undoubtedly, the Americans expected to take revenge for the battle lost by Bird. But a new meeting with the mysterious strangers did not happen, although the helicopters scrupulously examined the coast, and the caterpillar transporters went deep into the continent.

The new expedition managed to explore only some of the ice caves on the coast. The results were modest. Construction and household debris, broken drilling rigs, some mining equipment, torn mining overalls. There were signs "Made in Germany". Surprisingly, not a single spent cartridge case was found that was related to German weapons from the Second World War.

The fact that the Germans spent more than one year here was beyond doubt. But when did they disappear from the icy continent? Where are the mythical underground factories that produced this alleged superweapon? The Americans stumbled only on dilapidated barracks. Admiral Gerald Ketcham, not meeting anyone but penguins, ordered to sail home ...

Until now, little is reliably known about the expedition of Admiral Byrd in 1946-1947. Information about the stay of the military and scientists in the Queen Maud Land area at the beginning of 1947 is mostly classified. Most likely, the expedition members encountered aliens there. And all the materials related to them, and today in the United States are under the heading of secrecy.