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...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...
...Flying Fortress with 13 men aboard smacked down on its belly 100 miles in land on the treacherous Greenland icecap. Balchen and young (32) Navy Lieut. Aram Parunak, a onetime Ursinus College football hero, teamed to try a rescue...
...doom for a landing plane, but Pilot Parunak set his flying boat down, somehow, anyway. While Balchen and his rescue party trudged to the stranded patrol plane, Pilot Parunak sat up all night kicking icebergs away from his PBY. After this rescue, Parunak and Balchen gave themselves a name: "Greenland Cooperative Salvage...
...most of the U. S. troops now here, New Guinea was just a forgotten name in a geography book. Probably one in a hundred remembered that New Guinea is the second largest island in the world (after Greenland...
...London, Chungking. U.S. ocean air freight began with a bang last January when the Army requisitioned TWA's five 22½-ton Boeing Stratoliners. Scores of 12½ton Douglas DC-3 airline transports were drafted from the airlines, sent around the nation, to Alaska, Britain, Greenland, Africa, China. Airline crews who knew the art of distance-flying were drafted...