Why is the code name of the evacuation mission "Operation Catfish"

The action of high jump This invasion of Antarctic continent is called "the action of high jump". The participating troops include 4,700 officers and men, 6 helicopters, 6 seaplanes, 2 multi-purpose aircraft, 15 other aircraft, 13 US support ships and 1 aircraft carrier. It seems incredible that the Philippine Sea organized such a large-scale operation immediately after the end of World War II. You know, at that time, the European economy was still in chaos. (This is the first Antarctic summer after World War II), it is very puzzling to spend so much money and use so much military equipment-unless it involves the national security of the United States. At that time, the US Navy was undergoing large-scale post-war downsizing, many ships were retired, and existing ships also experienced large-scale personnel reduction. Under the world situation at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were entering the cold war, and the fear of the third world war in the United States was increasing day by day. At that time, the US Navy could only rely on "semi-disabled navy and semi-disabled sailors" to deal with the Soviet Union. Sending such a large-scale and weak navy makes people doubt whether to continue a war in Antarctica. Later, some incidents were indeed confirmed by the leader of the operation, Admiral Richard Budd. According to the official statement of Chester W Nimitz, the naval operations minister, the operation includes the following purposes: (a) training soldiers and testing equipment in cold areas; (b) Consolidate and expand the sovereignty and effective control area of the United States in Antarctica. (c) To study the feasibility of establishing and maintaining a base in Antarctica. (d) Developing and researching technologies for establishing and maintaining bases on the Antarctic ice sheet. In particular, reserve relevant technologies for bases in Greenland. (e) Conducting extensive research in hydrology, geology, geography, meteorology and electromagnetism. In addition, there is no more information disclosed to the media, although many reporters doubt why so much naval power should be invested. The navy also stressed that the operation was just a naval show, but according to Admiral Ramsey's order on August 26, 1946, "the naval warfare department has full authority to represent the government." And "there will be no diplomatic negotiations and no foreign observers." Even the navy does not allow other government departments to participate in this operation. Admiral Budd, the commander of the fleet, is regarded as an American legend. He was the first man to fly over the polar regions. As we mentioned earlier, the Nazi Antarctic expedition once asked him to teach the experience of polar exploration. 1946, 12, 3 1, the central group of the fleet entered the Ross Sea, and the climate here was as bad as that described by predecessors in a hundred years. The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Burton Island struggled to clear a path on the ice to dock the fleet. The main fleet is divided into three groups. The central group includes communication ship Olympus, supply ship Yanxi and submarine trumpeter. The icebreaker Burton Island, the icebreaker North Wind (also from the Coast Guard). The eastern formation includes the seaplane carrier "Pine Island", the destroyer "Bronson" and the tanker "Canisto". The western group includes the seaplane support ship Curitake, the destroyer Henderson and the oil tanker Kappa Peng. In addition, the Philippine Sea carrier was mobilized. After Clifford. When Campbell came to the South Pole, the fleet first began aerial reconnaissance, and Admiral Byrd took off first. 1947 65438+129 October, he recalled that with the help of four rocket boosters, the plane began to taxi and the mother ship accelerated sharply to 30 knots to help him take off. "The aircraft carrier vibrates violently, and I know that they have accelerated to 30 knots." Admiral Baird said, "They are all waiting in line to see if our first flight can be successful. Those four rocket accelerators were so useful that I soon saw that the hangar was left behind. I know that we have succeeded. " After four weeks of reconnaissance, the plane flew for 220 hours, flew more than 22,700 miles and took 70,000 photos. The action plan started for six to eight months, but it soon ended prematurely and stumbled. According to the Chilean news agency, the operation suffered "many setbacks". According to official records, a plane crashed, three people died and the fourth died on the ice. Two helicopters crashed, but fortunately the crew were rescued and a task force commander almost disappeared. In the high jump, the middle group began to retire on February 22nd 1947, the western group began to retire on March 22nd 1, and finally the eastern group began to retire on the 4th. It's only been eight weeks since the operation started. On March 5th, 1947, "ElMercurio" in Santiago, Chile published an exclusive interview with General Bader under the title of "Olympus Sailing in the Wind and Waves". The general said that this day is a crucial day for the United States, and every effort must be made to deal with a hostile region. The general went on to say that he didn't mean to scare anyone, but just wanted to show that the United States really faced a new war and an aircraft that could fly from one pole of the earth to the other at incredible speed. ("Flying from a polar region with incredible urine." ) General Baird repeated his views at an international press conference. According to his own experience of flying from the South Pole to the North Pole. He thinks the speed is extremely amazing. On April 1947, 14, the high jump task force returned, and the Minister of National Defense JamesForrestal gave them a "warm" welcome. Soon after, Bud was called to Washington for a rigorous investigation by the Secret Service. Soon after, he was declared "suicide". Because these events happened one year after Germany's defeat, they caused widespread speculation. If the high jump is to find out the Nazi Antarctic base, then two conditions must be met. 1 The high jump should be a detailed reconnaissance of Nova Scotia. It should be found that there is no frozen soil, which can meet the needs of mankind for many years. In fact, these two conditions are met. Dongfang Group encountered great problems in reconnaissance. First of all, the climate has deteriorated. In the next few weeks, the sun appeared for a short time, the sky was gray and the clouds were thick. Another month passed, and there was no light at all in the South Pole. The sea soon froze and the ship could not move. Soon Commander Dufick gave up. He ordered his fleet to retreat north, and then managed to fly twice. But on March 3, the water began to freeze again, so Dongfang Group had to leave the Antarctic continent. However, the western group made an unexpected discovery. 1947 1 At the end, Major David Benger of Corona, California, took off from Curitake by PBM seaplane and flew to queen mary land. After entering the land, Benguer flew west for a while. He suddenly saw something extraordinary in the distance from the ordinary white ice sheet. It was a dark and dry land, which Baird later described as "a place without ice and snow, with blue-green lakes and brown mountains". Bunger and his men surveyed the area carefully. This oasis is about 300 square miles, including three big lakes and several small lakes. Between the two lakes is a wasteland with red stones, which may be the product of iron ore. In the next few days, Bunger returned to that area and found that the lake was very hot and full of red, blue and green algae. This is why the color of the lake is different. He took a bottle of water sample and later found that the lake was salty, which may be a clue: this lake has a back canal leading to the sea. This is a very important condition: warm inland lakes are connected with the ocean and are very good hiding places for submarines, and these lakes are in Nova Scotia, the legendary Nazi base. As the details of the "high jump action" have not yet been made public, some busybodies believe that the Nazis did have underground bases in Antarctica. The "reasons" they cited include: 1 Germany claimed to own the South Pole on the eve of the war, and all their actions at that time should be related to the war and the establishment of the Millennium Empire. Nazi ships and U-boats have been active in Antarctic waters both during and after the war. In the sensitive period before the outbreak of the Cold War, the United States did not hesitate to send such a huge fleet to the corner of the earth. General Budd once said that flying objects fly from one level of the earth to another at incredible speed. Their base is in the South Pole. About 25 Germans and more than 40 German submarines disappeared after the war. After careful scrutiny, most of these reasons are untenable, because any country trying to dominate the world will try its best to expand its military power. On the one hand, it exercises the ability of expedition, and more importantly, it accumulates experience for similar military operations in the future through geological exploration. However, there is a more sure statement that it is a "SAS special forces" who claimed to personally destroy the Nazi base.