VX(E)-6
NAME: Antarctic Development Squadron Six
TAIL CODES: XD / JD
Established: 17. January 1955
Disestablished: 31 March 1999
First published: 16. April 2003.
Last updated January 12, 2012.
Six new photos of 140436, 140437 and 140439 added November 18, 2003
New photos of 140434 and 140436 added October 21, 2007
New photo and 1000 pixel photo of 122465 and 122466 added January 12, 2012.

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Neptunes of VX-6 as known on
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P2V-2LP Unknown
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Date, location and photographer unknown. Lockheed photo.
   
P2V-2N, 122465
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Date, location and photographer unknown.
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P2V-2N, 122465
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Date, location and photographer unknown. Courtesy MAP
P2V-2N, 122465
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Date, location and photographer unknown.  (New January 18, 2012)
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P2V-2N, 122466
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Date, location and photographer unknown.
P2V-2N, 122466
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Date, location and photographer unknown.
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LP-2J, 140434
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Taking of from NAS Quonset Point on 30 December 1957. Courtesy Wayne Mutza140434_XD434_256.jpg
In trouble during Deepfreeze II. USN photo.

LP-2J, 140434
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Crash landing in April 1959. California ANG photos.

LP-2J, 140434
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Crash landing in April 1959. California ANG photos.

LP-2J, 140436
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USNavy photo.
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USNavy photo. Courtesy Wayne Mutza
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Photo by Jim Waldron JWALDRON@aol.com
This photograph was taken in December 1956 at the South Pole Station. The P2V aircraft had just arrived from McMurdo and was being unloaded. The photograph was taken from the cockpit of the R4D aircraft which had also just arrived from McMurdo. Courtesy The unofficial VX6 Website
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Courtesy The unofficial VX6 Website

LP-2J, 140436
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Courtesy MAP
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Courtesy MAP
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Courtesy The unofficial VX6 Website

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Taking off from Williams Field, McMurdo Sound in December 1961. USN photo.

LP-2J, 140436
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Courtesy Jay Slagle
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Courtesy Jay Slagle
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Taken during a text flight on 14. October 1957. Courtesy Wayne Mutza.140436_JD2_256.jpg
Photo: Clay Janson. Date and location unknown.
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Photographed by Clay Janson at NAS Miramar in June 1963. Courtesy Mahlon K Milles, via The Tailhook Organization.
New November 18, 2003

LP-2J, 140437
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Photographed at Intervargill, New Zealand in October 1961. Courtesy Wayne Mutza..vx6/140437_JD1_b_256.jpg
Photographed at Christchurch, New Zealand in th 1960's.  Photographer unknown.
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Photographed at Christchurch, New Zealand in th 1960's.  Photographer unknown. Courtesy Mahlon K Milles, via The Tailhook Organization.
New November 18, 2003

LP-2J, 140437
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Taken at NAS Quonset Point by Sean P Milligan in May 1961. Courtesy his book, Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Volume II.
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Photographed by Clay Janson at Davis Monthan in March 1965. Courtesy Jeffery Cultice.vx6/140437_JD4_256.jpg
Photographed at Wigram, on 31 December 1957. Photographer unknown.

LP-2J, 140437
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Photographed in 1961-62. Photographer unknown.vx6/140437_JD1_jay_256.jpg
Courtesy Jay Slagle
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Date, location and photographer unknown

LP-2J, 140439
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Courtesy The unofficial VX6 Website
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USN photo, Courtesy Wayne Mutza

LP-2J, 140439
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Courtesy The unofficial VX6 Website
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Courtesy Jay Slagle

LP-2J, 140439
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Courtesy Jay Slagle
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Photographed by Clay Janson at NAS Glenview around 1960. Courtesy Mahlon K Milles, via The Tailhook Organization.
New November 18, 2003

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