Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lieutenant Balchen piloted the America into the waves, as gently as possible. The impact hurled Commander Byrd, watching at his cabin window, into the sea. He saw Lieutenant Noville climbing out of another window, dazed and unable to hear his shouts. He swam to the cockpit, helped Lieutenant Balchen extricate himself from the wreckage. Everyone yelled for Bert Acosta-he was not in the cabin-but soon he appeared out of the dark waves. Two days later, a Paris surgeon discovered that Mr. Acosta had a fractured collarbone, the only serious injury of the crash...
...where in 1588 one of the prides of the Spanish Armada had been shattered on the rocks. Lieutenant Noville twice returned to the America's wreck to save the first transatlantic air mail, a tiny Betsy Ross flag for President Gaston Doumergue of France, some of Commander Byrd's scientific data...
...aided in dragging the America into shallow water, bringing ashore the three Wright Whirlwind engines which had not once whimpered during the flight. Although the distance between Roosevelt Field, L. I., and Ver-sur-Mer on the coast of Normandy is 3,477 miles, yet Commander Byrd estimated that the America flew some 4,200 miles during its 42 hours' journey...
Commander Byrd. Virginia has been proud of its Byrds ever since William Byrd fought Indians in 1683. Today there are three famed Byrd brothers-"Tom, Dick and Harry." Harry F. Byrd is Governor of Virginia. Capt. Thomas D. Byrd, U. S. Army retired, served with distinction in the World War, now manages a vast apple farm in Maryland. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd is the outstanding scientist-aviator...
...before he became a mighty oarsman, football player, broad-jumping champion of the Navy. After helping to occupy Vera Cruz in 1912, he learned to fly, was assigned to the spectacular Esquadrille Candinana on the Italian front during the World War. He has long been a friend of Commander Byrd, who put him in charge of the Spitzbergen base during the North Pole flight...