Supporting Operation Deep Freeze
In 1964, Mills was assigned to Operation Deep Freeze, the U.S. Naval Force supporting scientific research in Antarctica. During the austral summer seasons of 1964 65, and 1966 67, and 1967 68, Mills took station to provide weather information and electronic navigational aid to aircraft ferrying men and equipment between Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
Each of these seasonal deployments required an 11,000 mile voyage via the Panama Canal to Dunedin, New Zealand, Mills’ base of operations with “Deep Freeze”. At the end of each deployment, Mills completed a round the world cruise by returning to Newport, Rhode Island, via the Suez Canal. In 1965, when she did not serve with “Deep Freeze”, Mills was underway school ship off Florida. On 3 September 1968, Mills became an operational Naval Reserve training ship at Baltimore, Maryland.
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