R ear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd worried in Antarctica last week. The work of his two-year expedition had gone as far as practicable. He had made several successful exploratory flights. Dr ...

OPERATION: HIGHJUMP Operation Highjump commenced in August 1946. It was the largest, most heavily armed naval task force ever sent to Antarctica. Leading the mission was Admiral Richard E Byrd ...

On this day in 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed legislation awarding congressional gold, silver and bronze medals to members of an Antarctic expedition led by Rear Adm. Richard Byrd. On Nov ...

When Admiral Richard Byrd set off on his second expedition to Antarctica in 1933, he pulled Epaminondas James Demas out of MIT to join him. The explorer justified his action in a letter to ...

OPERATION: HIGHJUMP Operation Highjump commenced in August 1946. It was the largest, most heavily armed naval task force ever sent to Antarctica. Leading the mission was Admiral Richard E Byrd ...

Social media users are sharing images which they claim show top secret photographs from Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic expedition where traces of a lost ancient civilization can be seen. However, the ...

Richard B. Black, a retired rear admiral in the Navy Reserves who assisted Rear Adm. Richard E. Byrd in his explorations of Antarctica, died of cancer on Tuesday at the Fernwood Nursing Home in Bet… ...