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OPERATION: HIGHJUMP Operation Highjump commenced in August 1946. It was the largest, most heavily armed naval task force ever ...
The "City of New York", a description of which follows, is the ship used by Admiral Richard E ... New York", veteran sailing ship of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, has won the right to be called ...
After five weeks of exploring the wastes of Antarctica,* Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd was back in Washington ... that the 1,700,000 square miles the expedition had explored would make a ...
Work on radio equipment to be used by Rear Admiral Richard. M. Byrd's second Antarctic Expedition, scheduled for next September, has been begun by the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration ...