Word: arctician
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Navy is bringing out of obscurity the best-known living arctician: Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd. Now 58, looking more greyly senatorial than his senatorial brother, Dick Byrd will have technical control of the Navy's trident expedition. Direct commander of Task Force 68 will be lean, bouncy Captain Richard H. Cruzen (No. 2 to Byrd and skipper of the Bear in the 1939-41 foray). He will have under him twelve ships in three groups, to cover the widest possible area in the short season of light. When a base is set up on the Ross Shelf...
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