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Wilkins. Safely returned to Fairbanks after their fourth hop over the 560 miles of desolate northern Alaska between Fairbanks and their advanced base, Point Barrow, Captain George H. Wilkins and Pilot Ben Eielson took on a load of freight heavier than ever-4,200 Ib. of fuel and food-and...
Byrd. Commander Richard E. Byrd, his men and airplanes, rode the high seas in their steel ship Chantier toward Tromso, where there waited for him an ice pilot, thoughtfully engaged for Byrd by Explorer Amundsen to keep the Chantier's hull uncrushed by ice between Tromso and Spitzbergen. Byrd...
Wilkins. Fairbanks, Alaska, kept its radio ear cocked. But after the message (TIME, April 12) saying that Captain Wilkins and Pilot Eielson had brought their freight-laden monoplane Alaskan safely to earth 560 miles northward at Point Barrow, the Arctic air yielded no more news of them.
The Fairbanks operators were, however, in constant touch with Wilkins' overland party under Explorer "Sandy" Smith. The latter had been obliged to leave his comrades encamped some 140 miles south of Point Barrow on the Colville River, while he and an aide mushed across the tundra to the nearest settlement...
From Circle City to Fairbanks was no hop at all next day. Concerned for "Sandy" Smith and his dogs, Wilkins did not rest long when he got there, but loaded the Alaskan with dogmeat and gasoline and prepared to fly back over the towering Brooks range (6,000 feet and...