The film recounts the remarkable life of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, an American explorer who achieved significant milestones in aviation and polar exploration. Despite facing numerous challenges and ...

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen ... In spite of the naysayers, Richard Byrd had attained the status of American Hero. To maintain his momentum he turned his attention to the opposite end ...

Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd ... has found it hard to understand. Byrd the explorer, Byrd the grown-up Boy Scout, have obscured Byrd the romanticist, who now, in his wife’s name, is recorded ...

Operating out of his base, Little America, on the Bay of Whales, Richard E. Byrd, along with three others, completes a 1600-mile flight over the South Pole. Naturalist and explorer William Beebe ...

Those who knew Floyd Bennett well often used words like steady and unspectacular in describing the explorer ... when he learned that he and Richard Byrd were going to receive the Congressional ...