USN, Commanding Seaplane Tender USS Pine Island. Capt. Henry H. Caldwell, USN, Commanding Destroyer USS Brownson. Cdr. H.M.S. Gimber, USN, Commanding Tanker USS Canisteo. Capt. Edward K. Walker, USN, Commanding Western Group (Task Group 68.1) Capt. Charles A. Bond, USN, Commanding Seaplane Tender USS Currituck. Capt. John E. Clark, USN, Commanding Destroyer USS Henderson. Capt. C.F. Bailey, USN, Commanding Tanker USS Cacapon. Capt. R.A. Mitchell, USN, Commanding Central Group (Task Group 68.2) Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzen, USN, Commanding Officer Communications and Flagship USS Mount Olympus. Capt. R. R. Moore, USN, Commanding Supplyship USS Yancey. Capt. J.E. Cohn, USN, Commanding Supplyship USS Merrick. Capt. John J. Hourihan, USN, Commanding Submarine USS Sennet. Cdr. Joseph B. Icenhower, USN, Commanding Icebreaker USS Burton Island. CDR Gerald L. Ketchum, USN, Commanding Icebreaker USCGC Northwind. Capt. Charles W. Thomas, USCG, Commanding Carrier Group (Task Group 68.4) Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd, Jr. USN, (Ret), Officer in Charge Aircraft carrier and flagship USS Philippine Sea. Capt. Delbert S. Cornwell, USN, Commanding Base Group (Task Group 68.5) Capt. Clifford M. Campbell, USN, Commanding Base Little America IV Fatalities On December 30, 1946, aviation radiomen Wendell K. Henderson, Fredrick W. Williams, and Ensign Maxwell A. Lopez were killed when their Martin PBM Mariner George 1 crashed during a blizzard. The surviving six crew members were rescued 13 days later, including aviation radioman James H. Robbins and co-pilot William Kearns. A plaque honoring the three killed crewmen was later erected at the McMurdo Station research base, and Mount Lopez on Thurston Island was named in honor of killed airman Maxwell A. Lopez. In December 2004, an attempt was made to locate the remains of the plane. In 2007 a group called the George One Recovery Team was unsuccessful in trying to get direct military involvement and raise extensive funds from the United States Congress to try and find the bodies of the three men killed in the crash. On January 21, 1947, Vance N. Woodall died during a "ship unloading accident". In a crew profile, deckman Edward Beardsley described his worst memory as "when Seaman Vance Woodall died on the Ross Ice Shelf under a piece of roller equipment designed to 'pave' the ice to build an airstrip." In media The documentary about the expedition The Secret Land was filmed entirely by military photographers (both USN and US Army) and narrated by actors Robert Taylor, Robert Montgomery, and