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Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957), was an American naval officer, [1] and pioneering 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 Plat
He died on or about October 3, 1988, at the age of 68. His body was found in a warehouse in Baltimore, Maryland.He had gone missing on September 13, 1988, after being placed on a train in Boston bound for Washington, D.C. Byrd was supposed to attend a National Geographic Society event honoring the 100th anniversary of his father's birth, but never arrived.
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After the war, his parents returned to Virginia, and lived with his grandparents. His grandfather and namesake, also Richard E. Byrd (1801-1872), was a politician and by then former slaveholder (the elder Richard E. Byrd owned 26 enslaved people in Frederick County in 1860, and possibly more in neighboring Clarke County).
Richard Evelyn Byrd (1938). [6] Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1940). [7] Lincoln Ellsworth (1944). [8] Frank Debenham (1949). He died in 1965. Paul Allman Siple (1957). He died in 1968. Louise Arner Boyd (1959). [9] Finn Ronne (1960). He died in 1980. Jackie Ronne. She died in 2009. [10] Bernt Balchen (1966). Laurence McKinley Gould (1969). Thomas ...
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In 1927, in a trimotor Fokker C-2 monoplane, named America he flew with Richard E. Byrd, Bernt Balchen, and Bert Acosta on their record-setting transatlantic flight.. In 1927, Byrd decided to partner with Floyd Bennett (his co-pilot on the North Pole flight), and attempt to win the Orteig Prize which offered a $25,000 reward for the first non-stop flight from New York City to Paris.