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Кстати, HIGHJUMP не потерпел катастрофу, а был банально прерван приказм президента Трумэна. Он просто приказал им сворачиваться и возвращаться домой.
Причина - растущее недовольство британцев действиями американцев. хотя США и убеждали всех, что это чисто исследовательская экспедиция, количество военных в ней наводило на подозрения всех. Британцы, видите ли, считали, что эта территория принадлежит им, и США следовало бы согласовать свои действия с короной, как сказал посол Британии в США.
вот из статьи:
Briggs told Everson "that our Government is at least as interested in practicing cold water operations as it is in what may be found sub-zero, sub-rosa, sub-ice caps, etc." However, Everson "did not seem altogether soothed". Briggs went on to say that Everson muttered something about Antarctica being British territory and that the United States should have cleared the expedition with His Majesty's government. "If London has any such notions as that, I assume steps will be taken to disabuse our British friends of any belief that we consider Antarctica British", Briggs concluded.
Также очень возмущались действиями США Новая Зеландия, Австралия и Чили (конечно же с подачи Британии:
Two days later Briggs noted that New Zealand, Australia and Chile had also indicated a rather keen interest in the motives and objectives of OPERATION HIGHJUMP. Would the United States abandon current policy and lay claim to vast areas not only claimed by the above, but also by the French, Norwegians and Argentineans? Briggs noted that representatives of the governments of Australia, New Zealand and Chile requested permission to go along as observers but that permission was firmly opposed by the navy. Finally, on November 27 as the USS YANCEY and USS MERRICK began to cram aboard every last item remaining on the docks at Port Hueneme, Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson telephoned Briggs to ask if he foresaw any "political difficulties" in the "Byrd expedition". According to the Secretary, President Truman's naval aide, Admiral Leahy, had expressed concern that it might be too bad to have the Chileans, "now so full of good will, acquire hurt feelings". Briggs attempted to put his President at ease, saying that both Chile and Argentina had expressed "some interest" in Highjump, however "I did not believe that relations with either country would be affected in any substantial or noticeable way by the expedition". Perhaps Secretary Acheson was put at ease, but the same can not be said of the President. At the very last moment, probably December 1 or 2, President Harry Truman tried to stop OPERATION HIGHJUMP. Briggs was told that "the navy" had suddenly been called into the Oval Office and told to cancel the expedition.
By December 3, 1946, most of the ships were at sea; all the rest, but for the USS BURTON ISLAND, were about to depart. OPERATION HIGHJUMP was underway.
в принципе, все понятно. за Антарктиду развернулась достаточно сильная конкурентная борьба (почему все ей так интересовались, другой вопрос, но точно не из-за жалких остатков немецких исследовательских баз). в этой борьбе США своей операцией Берда немного "подрезали" другие страны, о чем те не замедлили сообщить и выразить свое возмущение. Антарктидой интересовались - и до сих пор интересуются - не только США и Британия. Да, и Германия была в числе этих стран. но после Второй мировой по понятным причинам выбыла из гонки. если кому-то достались остатки немецких исследований - что тут удивительного?
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