The collection consists of taped and transcribed oral history interviews with south polar pioneers to capture individual memory and personal perspective on US involvement in Antarctica during the landmark 1950s when the physical, scientific and diplomatic foundations for today's Antarctic operations were built. Includes interviews with: Aldrich, Kenneth E., Baker, David E., Baronick, Michael P., Beckett, William T., Bentley, Charles R., Bergstrom, James H., Bevilacqua, Charles A., Bowers, Richard A., Cavendish, Lynn M., Chaudoin, Robert L., Dalrymple, Paul C., Dalton, Brian C., Davis, Clinton, Davis, Walter L., Dewart, Gilbert, Ehrlich, Edward N., Hatch, Ross, Hess, William T., Honkala, Rudolf A., Jaburg, Conrad J., Lett, H. Kim, Levack, Herbert, Littlewood, William H., Lucier, Richard E., Mehaffey, Donald C., Montgomery, Thomas T., Moss, George, Noonan, Paul F., Porter, Philip W., Randall, John A., Shinn, Conrad Gus, Slaton, Charles M., Smith, Philip M., Stroup, William E., Thomson, Robert B., Toney, George, R., Waldron, Kenneth L., Ward, Edward M. d I., Young, Victor, Wilson, Charles R. (not transcribed), Slagle, Thomas Dick.