Argentina's flight to Pole

This plaque was presented to document the Argentine Navy flights of two DC-3's which landed at Pole on 6 January 1962. This venture is written up in the section "Long Flights, Lonely Men" by David Burke in his book Moments of Terror:

With two DC-3 Naval transports, Argentina joined the elite of those few nations, which have landed aircraft at the South Pole. Taking off from Ellsworth (an IGY base on the Filchner Ice Shelf which the United States transferred to Argentine occupation) they reached the Pole on 6 January 1962. During the eight-hour stay, the flight commander, Captain Ouijada, presented the American base leader with a plaque honoring the memory of Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott. Thirteen men made the Pole flight.

The two aircraft had originally left the Rio Gallegos naval aircraft station late in December to survey ice conditions around the Weddell Sea. The air crews were warmly welcomed at Pole, and Captain Quijada handed over a plaque [seen above] as the Argentine Navy's tribute to Amundsen and Scott 50 years after their arrival at the Pole.

This flight served to transport 4 USARP scientists from Ellsworth to Pole on the first leg of their return journey to the United States. The Argentines were given fuel and JATO.

Here's a translation of the plaque, with help from Google: The Argentine Republic to Amundsen, Scott and his men on the fiftieth anniversary of their arrival at the South Pole. Tribute to the naval aviation of the Argentine navy on its first flight to the South Pole.

Some of the above information came from the March 1962 issue of Antarctic, the journal of the New Zealand Antarctic Society.