Lester Lehrke
Chief Boatswain’s
Mate, First Class
Sailmaker
East Base
Biography:
Known as “Sails”, Lester Lehrke
was the East Base sailmaker and assisted as a
radioman. He was born in
With Robert Palmer, Lehrke manned
the Mountain Weather Plateau Weather Station during November and December of
1940. Click on the link to Herbert
Dorsey, Jr.’s paper for the American Philosophical Society.
Antarctic
Service Medal Gold
Geographical Feature:
Lehrke Inlet
Contributions:
Films/Videos:
Full Photo/Films/Video Library:
Links: “
An Antarctic Mountain Weather Station”, Lieutenant H.G. Dorsey, Jr.,
Proceedings of The
American Philosophical Society, vol. 89, Part 1, 1945
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