John Noble lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. While sufing the web he found this web site and sent along some articles from his collection.
The above 5 photos are of USS Hissem newspaper articles.
These 2 articles are from Otago Festival Week, 1963
Article about USS Mills
This is a picture of a USN helicopter – in support of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition (TAE) of 1957 – 58 led by Sir Vivian Fuchs of Great Britain. The NZ contingent was led by Sir Edmund Hillary.
The other picture is of Sir Vivian’s Snowcat used during the expedition.