LaFond, Eugene Cecil, 1909-
Oral history interview with Eugene LaFond, 27 February 2000.
Discussion includes role as Chief Scientist on various Arctic research expeditions in the 1940s and 1950s via surface ship and submarine; in the latter making the first surfacing through Arctic ice.
Oceanographer; worked at Scripps Institute of Oceanography for the Navy during World War II; subsequently at the Navy Electronics Laboratory and the Arctic Submarine Laboratory.
Polar regions -- Discovery and exploration.
Research vessels -- Polar regions.
Scientific expeditions -- Polar regions -- 20th century.
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Shoemaker, Brian. interviewer.
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