PX-2047
PUBLIC RECORD
INVENTED FOR A FICTIONAL NEWSPAPER
Task Force 68 after-action reporting, Operation Highjump, 1946–47
- Origin
- US Navy
- Dated
- 1947
- Extent
- 300 pages
- Status
- accepted
- Redactions
- None.
Chain of custody
An ordinary public record at the National Archives, open since the 1940s. We read it in the original over three days. The reference staff could not identify anybody who had read it end to end before.
Held by: National Archives; copy held by They Buried
Excerpt
BESETMENT ................ 2 vessels, Dec 1946
HULL DAMAGE .............. 1 vessel, holed
FUEL ..................... consumption above plan throughout
AIRCRAFT LOSS ............ 30 Dec 1946, Thurston Island, 3 killed
survivors recovered after 13 days
WITHDRAWAL ............... late Feb 1947, ahead of schedule
STATED CAUSE ............. closing pack ice
Transcribed by the data desk. Line breaks follow the original. Bracketed matter is ours.
Editor's note
The three men killed are named in the original. Any story about this operation that treats the early return as a mystery should carry their names, and ours does.
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