Gerald Avera, YN-3 served aboard USS Wilhoite during its Deep Freeze deployment. The information on this page was submitted by Theresa Linden, Gerald's daughter. Gerald passed away in August, 2001. Found among his belongings were these items from USS Wilhoite.

USS Wilhoite did not have a separate cruise book for this deployment, she shared the larger Operation Deep Freeze book that consolidated sea, ice and air operations into one book. These pages were the Wilhoite's pages. (we'll excuse the misspelling of Sydney.

The traditional documents issued to Gerald Avera that recognize significant seagoing events, Crossing the International Date Line - Domain of the Golden Dragon, and the crossing the Equator - Ancient Order of the Deep

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