This image was a personal photo shot by C-141 Flight Engineer SMSgt Bob Pederson in October of 1997. It was a rare moment that the penguins would come so close to the aircraft on the ice runway at McMurdo.
SMSgt <b>Bob Pederson</b>
1997-10
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