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   Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), an American naval officer, [1] was a pioneering American aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the Atlantic Ocean, a segment of the Arctic Ocean, and a segment of the Antarctic Plateau.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Richard-E-ByrdRichard E. Byrd | American Polar Explorer & Aviator | Britannica

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   Apr 24, 2024 · Richard E. Byrd (born October 25, 1888, Winchester, Virginia, U.S.—died March 11, 1957, Boston, Massachusetts) was a U.S. naval officer, pioneer aviator, and polar explorer best known for his explorations of Antarctica using airplanes and other modern technical resources.

4. www.britannica.com › biography › Richard-E-ByrdRichard E. Byrd - Polar Explorer, Aviator, Naval Officer

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   Byrd was one of the world’s foremost aviators and displayed extraordinary gifts in organizing successful expeditions to Antarctica. His major achievement was to apply the airplane, radio, camera, and other modern technical resources to these polar explorations.

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6. virginiahistory.org › learn › richard-e-byrdRichard E. Byrd | Virginia Museum of History & Culture

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   Lieutenant (later Admiral) Richard E. Byrd reputedly was the first man (along with crew member Floyd Bennett) to fly over the North Pole on May 9, 1926. Some experts dispute that Byrd actually reached the North Pole, but at the time his claim was universally accepted.

7. www.navytimes.com › news › your-navyFirst to fly over the North Pole - Navy Times

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   May 8, 2019 · While Amundsen and Ellsworth prepared for a new polar journey in the spring of 1926, a 37-year-old retired American naval officer, Richard Evelyn Byrd, was convinced he would be the first man...

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   Who was Richard Evelyn Byrd?

   • Another hero of the 1920s was Richard Evelyn Byrd, a scion of one of Virginia's most famous families. Lieutenant (later Admiral) Richard E. Byrd reputedly was the first man (along with crew member Floyd Bennett) to fly over the North Pole on May 9, 1926.

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   Who was Richard Byrd?

   • Born in 1888, Richard Byrd had already distinguished himself as an adventurer and flier. As a youth, he had journeyed around the world and had ridden out a typhoon in the China Sea. While in the Philippines, he came face to face with bandits armed “with bolos in their hands heavy enough to cut through a body twice as big as mine,” he later noted.

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   Who was Richard Byrd's father?

   • Richard Byrd's own father, for whom he was named, was a country lawyer with a keen interest in Virginia politics. From another prominent political family was his mother, Eleanor Bolling Flood. Breaking Byrd out of a boy's life in a respectable family was an invitation from a family friend to visit the Philippine Islands.

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   Where is Richard Byrd Elementary School?

   • Richard E. Byrd Elementary School, a Department of Defense school located in Negishi (Yokohama, Japan) opened on September 20, 1948. The name was changed to R.E. Byrd Elementary School on April 5, 1960. Memorials to Byrd can be found in two cities in New Zealand ( Wellington and Dunedin ).

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9. www.history.com › byrd-flies-over-south-poleExplorer Richard Byrd flies over South Pole | November 29 ...

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   Feb 9, 2010 · 1929. Explorer Richard Byrd flies over South Pole. American explorer Richard Byrd and three companions make the first flight over the South Pole, flying from their base on the Ross Ice...

10. www.nytimes.com › 2020/05/05 › scienceSelf-Isolated at the End of the World - The New York Times

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    May 5, 2020 · But I know that none of my days could approach what Adm. Richard E. Byrd, the American arctic explorer, endured in 1934, when he spent five months alone in a one-room shack in Antarctica ...