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...Bernt Balchen, 45, beefy, blue-eyed, Norwegian-born pilot who flew Admiral Byrd over the South Pole in 1929 and has logged a record mileage over polar regions, received the Legion of Merit for his aid, last year, in evacuating 2,000 Norwegians from Sweden by air, and for parachuting supplies and espionage agents to the European underground...
Squat, barrel-chested, Norwegian-born Bernt Balchen was one of the great U.S. peacetime heroes. He began flying more than 20 years ago, piloted Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd across the Atlantic in 1927 and over the South Pole in 1929. Last week Bernt Balchen, now a 42-year-old U.S. Army colonel, was back in a hero's role again-this time in barren, ice-capped Greenland...
...Organized an Aviation Division, with 30 pilots for a starter, including Rear Admiral Byrd, Bernt Balchen. Clyde Pangborn, Roscoe Turner, to publicize the Committee with a nationwide air tour...
...years ago the name Teterboro was as familiar to the air-minded public as the word Newark is today. Across the tarmac and down the four runways of Teterboro Field, near little Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., the great and near-great flyers of the day paraded in ceaseless pageant. Bernt Balchen and Clarence Chamberlain based there; wild Bert Acosta cavorted in the sky; Charles Lindbergh was a frequent visitor; Giuseppe Bellanca there tested his new ships. Chief of Teterboro's prides was the No. 1 U. S. air plant of the period-Fokker-building not only most...
...upon boats for transportation. Norwegian Aero Transport expects the new passenger & mail air-service to cause a step-up in tourist business. Only three years old, the company has lines around the southern coast to Oslo, last year pushed as far north as Tromso. Technical adviser is famed Pilot Bernt Balchen, who lately returned from a survey of U. S. airlines...