Action Date: August 27 December 5, 1943. Navy Book of Distinguished Service. Corrections? Byrd was born in Winchester, Virginia, the son of Esther Bolling (Flood) and Richard Evelyn Byrd Sr. [28], Once again, Byrd named Floyd Bennett as his chief pilot, with Norwegian Bernt Balchen, Bert Acosta, and Lieutenant George Noville as other crewmembers. His theory was always unwelcomed by the public and scientific community. [21] On the basis of this and other data in the diary, Dennis Rawlins concluded that Byrd steered accurately, and flew about 80% of the distance to the pole before turning back because of an engine oil leak, but later falsified his official report to support his statement of reaching the pole. As Byrd's image is on both the first and second Byrd Antarctic Expedition Medals, he was the only American entitled to wear two medals with his own image on them. Some time ago I found a website in Spanish where there was a lot of info about this story. The theory of hollow Earth may someday be corroborated by scientific evidence. Now you have been chosen to be witness here that our world does exist. [11], Shortly after the entry of the United States into the First World War in April 1917, Byrd oversaw the mobilization of the Rhode Island Naval Militia. Byrd himself had previously suggested that the US might seek to establish such a base at the North Pole, so it is clear that he viewed the polar extremities as advantageous. On July 14, 1912, he was assigned to the battleship USS Wyoming. [12] He then commanded naval air forces at Naval Air Station Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada, from July 1918 until the armistice in November. However, there are also a number of fringe beliefs associated with Admiral Byrds exploits, which spin off in a variety of strange directions, all of which seem to belong more in the realm of science fiction than historical fact. He is also the president and founder of Wilderness Research Foundation (WRF) and led the 1996 American Expedition to Baffin Island in the Canadian Eastern Arctic. Admiral Byrd was famed for going to the North and South Poles and obtaining the Congressional Medal of Honor. During service in the Caribbean Sea, Byrd received his first letter of commendation, and later a Silver Lifesaving Medal, for twice plunging fully clothed to the rescue of a sailor who had fallen overboard. Upon landing, he was met by emissaries of a civilization many assume to be the mythical Agartha. The Elder Race - One of the most controversial tales of inner-Earth-dwellers is the so-called "Shaver Mystery." In 1945, Amazing Stories magazine under the editorship of Ray Palmer ran a story told by Richard Shaver, who claimed he had recently been the guest of what remained of an underground civilization. On February 19, 1947, Admiral Richard E. Byrd left Base Camp Arctic and flew northward. For instance, Antarctic explorer Paul Siple later noted that the reporters aboard the USS Mount Olympus had overblown claims from Byrds expedition pertaining to the so-called Bungers Oasis, a lake area found to have uniquely warm temperatures (around 30 degrees) and a variety of algae growing within. These alleged Agarthans expressed their concern about humanitys use of atomic bombs during WWII and employed Byrd as their ambassador to return to the U.S. government and relay their sentiment.. Jacques Valle in his book Confrontations mentions a "spurious story" about "'holes in the pole' allegedly found by Admiral Byrd", when he quotes Clint Chapin of the Copper Medic case as believing the UFOs came from inside the earth.[56]. The film shows live-action footage of the operation, along with a few re-enacted scenes. For his services during the war, he received a letter of commendation from Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, which was after World War II converted to a Navy Commendation Medal. Flights were made from this base over the Antarctic continent. Byrd next aided the American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh with navigational training and the use of the specially extended runway for Lindberghs transatlantic solo flight in May 1927. (Coincidentally, in 1925, then Army Air Service Reserve Corps Lieutenant Charles Lindbergh had applied to serve as a pilot on Byrd's North Pole expedition, but apparently, his bid came too late. The major area covered was the eastern coastline of Antarctica from 150E to the Greenwich meridian. The objective: construct an American training and research facility in the South Pole. They had difficulty gaining enough altitude, and they had to dump empty gas tanks, as well as their emergency supplies, to achieve the altitude of the Polar Plateau, but they were ultimately successful.[34]. The others were Admiral George Dewey, General John J. Pershing, and Admiral William T. Sampson. The expedition was supported by a large naval force (designated Task Force 68), commanded by Rear Admiral Richard H. Cruzen. In 1822, along with his supporters, Symmes asked Congress to fund his expedition to the North Pole. Also in 1929, he received the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution. If so, what was the nature of this threat, and could it have dealt with carry-overs from Nazi Germany, as some UFO researchers have already speculated over the years? They had four children Richard Evelyn Byrd III, Evelyn Bolling Byrd Clarke, Katharine Agnes Byrd Breyer, and Helen Byrd Stabler. The experience of flying over sea ice and glaciers in western Greenland had fired Byrd with the ambition to fly over the North Pole. Bennett, though, had started a memoir, given numerous interviews, and wrote an article for an aviation magazine about the flight before his death that all confirmed Byrd's version of the flight. The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting a Gold Star in lieu of a Second Award of the Navy Distinguished Service Medal to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (NSN: 07918), United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility to the Government of the United States as Commanding Officer of the U.S. Antarctic Service. [4] It was the largest Antarctic expedition to date and was expected to last 68 months. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. What is your impression? Byrd took a sextant reading of the Sun at 7:07:10 GCT. The 50th anniversary of Byrd's first flight over the South Pole was commemorated in a set of two postage stamps by Australian Antarctic Territory in 1979, and a commemorative flag was designed. In 1958. the Richard Byrd library, part of the Fairfax County Public Library system opened in Springfield, Virginia. Incredible! He was the brother of Virginia Governor and U.S. Born: October 25, 1888, Winchester, Va. Richard E. Byrd, in full Richard Evelyn Byrd, (born October 25, 1888, Winchester, Virginia, U.S.died March 11, 1957, Boston, Massachusetts), U.S. naval officer, pioneer aviator, and polar explorer best known for his explorations of Antarctica using airplanes and other modern technical resources. He was assigned state membership number 605 and national membership number 50430. He was the seventh recipient of the prestigious Hubbard Medal awarded by the National Geographic Society for his flight to the North Pole. Report of the Adjutant General of Rhode Island. This document is an entry from Byrd's diary during the mission. The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Legion of Merit to Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (NSN: 07918), United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States while in command of a Special Navy Mission to the Pacific from August 27, 1943, to December 5, 1943, when thirty-three islands of the Pacific were surveyed or investigated for the purpose of recommending air base sites of value to the United States for its defense or for the development of post-war civil aviation. [19] Balchen said that Bennett had confessed to him months after the flight that Byrd and he had not reached the pole. Would love your thoughts, please comment. GET PAST EPISODES OF THE MICAH HANKS PROGRAM HERE. The name was changed to R.E. [13] During this expedition, Byrd made the acquaintance of Navy Chief Aviation Pilot Floyd Bennett and Norwegian pilot Bernt Balchen. In 1946, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal appointed Byrd as officer in charge of Antarctic Developments Project. In 1928 he announced his decision to explore the unknown regions of the Antarctic from the air. The expedition continued in Antarctica without him until the last of its participants left Antarctica on March 22, 1941. His qualities of leadership and unselfish devotion to duty are in accordance with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. 1947: Admiral Richard B. Byrd's Secret Diary. Legendary scientist Edmond Halley, after whom the Halley comet was named found peculiarities in Earths magnetic field. Some people have had a little more time on their hands recently. In recognition of his service during World War II, Byrd received two awards of the Legion of Merit.[41]. The interview appeared in the Wednesday, March 5, 1947, edition of the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio, and read in part: Admiral Richard E. Byrd warned today that the United States should adopt measures of protection against the possibility of an invasion of the country by hostile planes coming from the polar regions. He rendered valuable service as Secretary and Organizer of the Navy Department Commission on Training Camps, and trained men in aviation in the ground school in Pensacola, and in charge of rescue parties and afterwards in charge of air forces in Canada. His family's prominent descendants include brothers Richard Byrd, a Naval officer who explored the North and South poles, and Harry Flood Byrd, a Democrat who was governor of Virginia and then . Paramount Pictures sent two cameramen al. Byrd, by then an internationally recognized, pioneering American polar explorer and aviator, served for a time as Honorary National President (19311935) of Pi Gamma Mu, the international honor society in the social sciences. He was then recalled to active duty and was assigned to the Office of Naval Operations and served in a desk job as secretary and organizer of the Navy Department Commission on Training Camps. 1919. p. 406. x-xiii . (If this is true, then credit for the first flight over the North Pole actually belongs to Roald Amundsen of Norway, Lincoln Ellsworth of the United States, and Umberto Nobile of Italy, who made a well-documented flight over the Pole in a dirigible three days after Byrds flight.). According to some hypotheses, penetration into the underworld, which is below the surface of our planet, may be in Antarctica. According to his secret entry, he met the ancient race underground and witnessed a huge base with animals and plants previously thought to have been extinct. In 1970, United States Environmental Science Service Administration (ESSA) published satellite images of the North Pole, where one picture showed a perfect rounded hole over the Arctic. 1, Washington, DC, on March 19, 1921, and affiliated with Kane Lodge No. [23], If Byrd and Bennett did not reach the North Pole, then the first flight over the pole occurred a few days later, on May 12, 1926, with the flight of the airship Norge that flew from Spitsbergen (Svalbard) to Alaska nonstop with a crew including Roald Amundsen, Umberto Nobile, Oscar Wisting, and Lincoln Ellsworth. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, historic American icon famous for his explorations of the Earths polar extremities, was widely regarded during his lifetime as a pioneer and hero. Richard E. Byrd, in full Richard Evelyn Byrd, (born October 25, 1888, Winchester, Virginia, U.S.died March 11, 1957, Boston, Massachusetts), U.S. naval officer, pioneer aviator, and polar explorer best known for his explorations of Antarctica using airplanes and other modern technical resources. The structure of the planet cannot be verified empirically. U.S. Navy Register of Commissioned Officers. The 17-year-old made increasingly daring attempts to join Richard Byrd's 1928 Antarctic voyage. Byrd was posthumously eligible for the Antarctic Service Medal, established in 1960, for his participation in the Antarctic expeditions Operation Highjump (1946 to 1947) and Operation Deep Freeze (1955 to 1956). I am now detained for several hours (six hours, thirty-nine minutes, to be exact.) Before Verne, the hollow Earth concept was originally proposed in the 17th century by Edmond Halley, discoverer of the eponymous short-orbit comet that swings . Unfortunately for Byrd, his tour of duty in Newfoundland was considered overseas service. Admiral Byrd continues, writing that he can see animals in the valley, among them a living specimen of a woolly mammoth. I am ORDERED TO REMAIN SILENT IN REGARD TO ALL THAT I HAVE LEARNED, ON THE BEHALF OF HUMANITY!!! Reader in Marine Biology, University of Hong Kong, 195760. On March 31, 1934, during a regularly scheduled broadcast, Admiral Byrd was awarded the CBS Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Radio. Yet one of the diaries remains "secret." Admiral Byrd supposedly kept a diary of his expedition over the North Pole in 1947. Byrd Elementary School on April 5, 1960. We should be over Ice and Snow! To the contrary, here we may also find more mundane explanations for the mysterious early withdrawal that occurred during Operation Highjump. The school opened in its present location in 2008 after its original location was converted to Sun Valley High School. [32] Acosta and Balchen did not receive the Distinguished Flying Cross because, at that time, it could only be awarded to members of the armed services and not to civilians. The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Navy Distinguished Service Medal to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (NSN: 07918), United States Navy, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service in a position of great responsibility to the Government of the United States, in demonstrating, by his courage and professional ability that heavier-than-air craft could in continuous flight travel to the North Pole and return. The fantastic speed with which the world is shrinking recalled the admiral is one of the most important lessons learned during his recent Antarctic exploration. Other recipients include Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen, and Charles Lindbergh. He was released from active duty on October 1, 1945. Byrd later renounced his membership to the organization, although his early record in Congress on race and civil rights was mixed. The members of the Special Navy Mission sailed from Balboa, Canal Zone, on USS Concord (CL-10), Captain Irving Reynold Chambers, commanding, in September 1943. Interestingly, it was supported by several great minds. The total number of personnel involved was over 4,000. It is also commemorated in a U.S. postage stamp issued at the time, and a considerable amount of mail using it was sent from Byrd's base at Little America. To the portside are great forests growing on the mountain slopes. His next assignment was to the gunboat USS Dolphin, which also served as the yacht of the Secretary of the Navy. You see, we have never interfered before in your races wars, and barbarity, but now we must, for you have learned to tamper with a certain power that is not for man, namely, that of atomic energy. Great heroism was displayed, especially by the men who lost their lives rescuing the wounded." After a further summer of exploration, the expedition returned to North America on June 18, 1930. As fate would have it, Byrd missed his train to take him to the airship on August 24, 1921. In the autumn of 1917, he was sent to naval aviation school at Pensacola, Florida. Appointed from: Virginia. [9][10] While serving in this position, he was commended by Brigadier General Charles W. Abbot, the adjutant general of Rhode Island, for making great strides in improving the efficiency of the militia, and on April 25, 1928, was promoted to captain by act of the Rhode Island General Assembly in recognition of his flight to the North Pole in 1926. He would later name a region of Antarctic land he discovered "Marie Byrd Land" after her, and a mountain range, the Ames Range, after her father. Of the three flying boats (NC-1, NC-3, and NC-4) that started from Newfoundland, only Lieutenant Commander Albert Read's NC-4 completed the trip on May 18, 1919, achieving the first transatlantic flight.[14]. Our emissaries have already delivered messages to the powers of your world, and yet they do not heed. During the winter of 1934 (from March to August) Byrd spent five months alone in a hut at a weather station named Bolling Advance Base, buried beneath the ice shelf face 123 miles (196 km) south of Little America, enduring temperatures between 58 and 76 F (50 and 60 C) and sometimes much lower. As a senior officer in the United States Navy, Byrd was recalled on active duty on March 26, 1942, and served as the confidential advisor to Admiral Ernest J. He is one of only three persons, one being Admiral David Dixon Porter and the other being Arctic explorer Donald Baxter MacMillan, to have been promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy without having first held the rank of captain. . Interestingly, my own introduction to allegations of Byrd meeting strange beings while visiting the Antarctic came from an odd story shared with me by a friend, rather than any alleged secret diaries or other fabled texts. This sparked the conspiracy theorists to believe in the existence of underground civilizations. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. . This was perhaps his most controversial exploit. Transcript. In 1818, John Cleves Symmes, Jr., a veteran of the War of 1812 and trader published a memo where he declared that the earth is hollow, habitable within and constituted of a number of concentric spheres. He was convinced, following Halleys theory that the poles have access to a hidden world. View all posts by Micah Hanks. American explorer Richard Byrd and three companions make the first flight over the South Pole, flying from their base on the Ross Ice Shelf to the pole and back in 18 hours and 41 minutes. He made a second flight over the South Pole and took part in several other flights. Our Source: "Byrd Gets CBS Award." Finally, there is the curious statement about in the case of a new war, which seemed to further indicate that his statements dealt not with an existing menace, but instead with the potential for a future threat. Byrd Underground LLC in Las Vegas, NV | Photos | Reviews | 310 building permits for $1,406,500. During Byrd's assignment to Dolphin, she was commanded by future Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, who served as chief of staff to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. Additionally, it is well known that a variety of advanced aircraft had been designed toward the end of WW II in Germany, many which were said to resemble flying saucers. Our interest rightly begins just after your race exploded the first atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Admiral Richard Byrd, the iconic pilot, headed the project, which was formally designated the United States Navy Antarctic Development Program, that happened between year 1946 and 1947. On May 9, 1926, Byrd, acting as navigator, and Floyd Bennett as pilot made what they claimed to be the first airplane journey over the North Pole, flying from Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, Norway, to the Pole and back. Eventually, after landing, the admiral and his company are confronted by several men, who take him before an entity known as the Master. It is in the presence of this individual that we begin to see striking similarities to the kinds of reports made by contactees and alien abductees from over the decades: We shall not long delay your mission, and you will be safely escorted back to the surface and for a distance beyond. [26][27], In 1927, Byrd announced he had the backing of the American Trans-Oceanic Company, which had been established in 1914 by department-store magnate Rodman Wanamaker for the purpose of building aircraft to complete nonstop flights across the Atlantic Ocean. The animals he saw included Mammoth-like creatures. The French novelist Jules Verne, known for his series Voyages Extraordinaires, wrote Journey to The Center of the Earth around the time that the belief in a subterranean society piqued. His papers served as the nucleus for establishment of the BPRC Polar Archival Program in 1990. Journey with renown researcher Tim R. Swartz as he attempts to unravel Admiral Richard E Byrd's mysterious journey to find a secret subterranean world! It is worth recalling that for a very long time, this used to be an equal hypothesis, and only conclusions drawn from seismic studies led to its rejection. [52], The long-range short-wave voice transmissions from Byrd's Antarctic expedition in 1934 were named an IEEE Milestone in 2001.[53]. Memorials to Byrd can be found in two cities in New Zealand (Wellington and Dunedin). It has been shown that eleven international press representatives had been present on board the ship, and as their dispatches were sent along from their icy southern stronghold, a good bit of exaggeration had likely been included. After the war, Byrd volunteered to be a crew member in the U.S. Navy's 1919 aerial transatlantic crossing. Could Admiral Byrd have been making a general statement about enemy aircraft, in the sense that a hostile nation, should they ever establish a base at one of the poles, might use the area as a centralized point for launching attacks against the US mainland? Author of. THE CONCEPT OF A HOLLOW EARTH IS A THEORY THAT REFUSES TO DIE Explore the bizarre world under the Poles! In 1958, Norwegian-American aviator and explorer Bernt Balchen cast doubt on Byrd's statement on the basis of his knowledge of the airplane's speed. Admiral Richard E. Byrd was a U.S. naval officer, aviator and explorer who went on several Antarctic expeditions between 1928 and 1956 ().Details about each expedition can be seen (www.admiralbyrd . Altogether, Admiral Byrds interestsand his fearsassociated with Antarctica appeared to have more to do with securing the location for use by the United States before an enemy nation might do so, rather than warning about a security threat that existed at the time of his arrival between 1946-47. Byrd, Balchen, Acosta, and Noville flew from Roosevelt Field, East Garden City, New York, in the America on June 29, 1927. Unusual radio transmissions from Byrd finally began to alarm the men at the base camp, who then attempted to go to Advance Base. Byrd, along with pilot Bernt Balchen, co-pilot/radioman Harold June, and photographer Ashley McKinley, flew the Floyd Bennett to the South Pole and back in 18 hours, 41 minutes. In this capacity he helped supervise Operation Deep Freeze, a major scientific and exploratory expedition sent to the Antarctic under navy auspices as part of the program of the International Geophysical Year (195758). Naval Academy in 1912, Byrd was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy. At the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Byrd took command of the U.S. Antarctic service and led a third expedition to Antarctica in 193941, this one financed and sponsored by the U.S. government. As a token of his gratitude, Byrd named geographic features in the Antarctic after his supporters. Had anything so extraordinary ever really happened, could it truly have been kept secret for so long? To consider one final alternative, what if Byrds statements about flying objects which could fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds had been reported accurately (more or less) in the El Mercurio report? Talking about the recently completed expedition, Byrd said that the most important result of his observations and discoveries is the potential effect that they have in relation to the security of the United States. 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