Paul Siple first ventured to Antarctica as a Boy Scout with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's first expedition 1928-1930, and returned again for Byrd's1933-1935 mission.

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Rear 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.

In 1956, Commander Shinn, a veteran naval aviator who planned and executed the flight, touched down at the South Pole for the first time in history. It was nearly 60 degrees below zero.

People who had lately gone through the trials of Moving Day could sympathize last week with Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd’s difficulties in getting a self-sustaining village of 70 men packed ...

In 1902, Robert Falcon Scott, aboard the Discovery, sighted the distant western coast of the territory, but it was in 1929 when Dean Smith, pilot of Byrd’s first Antarctic expedition, made the first ...

On Aug. 25, 1928, an expedition led by Adm. Richard E. Byrd set sail from Hoboken, New Jersey, on its journey to Antarctica. Byrd made the first airplane flight over the North Pole in 1926 and the ...

Roth, a talented airplane mechanic from the Lower East Side, played an integral role on Commander Richard Byrd's Arctic expedition.

Antarctic Discovery: the Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition. By Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Pp. xxii + 421 + 47 plates. (London: Putnam and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 18s. net.