The O.T.L. Operation High Jump conspiracy theory

The O.T.L. Operation High Jump conspiracy theory

 * The whole Operation High Jump "conspiracy" theory appears to have started because:


 * 1) In the final stages of the war a sighting was reported by members of the nearby British Antarctic base of what appeared to be NAZIs in a nearby ice cave, (apparently a glacial cave)
 * 2) This was reported back to military intelligence who following up on other sightings of U-boats and Nazis near Argentina (and a quote from Hitler himself) suspected the Nazis had an organized facility in the area. (Although chances are it was just some officers from a scuttled U-boat and nothing else.)
 * 3) When this is also considered along side the fact that several German U-boats, a large amount of building supplies and German scientists identified by Operation Paperclip were still unaccounted for, theoretically added the then credibility of a possible remote Nazi base in the region which the Americans wanted to check out
 * 4) Subsequently both the British and US mounted missions to check out the area and toss in a bit of research and exploration as a bonus.
 * 5) On December 30, 1946, aviation radiomen Wendell K. Hendersin, Fredrick W. Williams, and Ensign Maxwell A. Lopez were killed when their PBM Mariner George 1 crashed during a blizzard on Mission High Jump.
 * 6) The mission ended a bit early and many of it's crew were heavy injured, not just frost bitten and/or snow blinded.
 * 7) Some aspects of what they found still remains classified to this day; which isn't helping matters; while others (such as the military promo video) are on the public record.
 * 8) Several popular sifi books are written about such a base.
 * 9) So many people began to believe the urban myth about "real motivation" for the subsequent operation, not the facts.