“If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.”

— Richard Evelyn Byrd

On his expedition to fly over the North Pole. His claim to have done so is now widely disputed. Skyward (1928)

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Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer 1888–1957

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