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Bernt Balchen
Norwegian-American aviator
Biographical Record
Pilot of the Ford trimotor on Byrd's 1929 South Pole flight. Later commanded United States Army Air Force operations in Greenland during the Second World War. Carried Bennett's 1927 private remark about the North Pole flight for thirty years before disclosing it in his 1958 autobiography Come North With Me
Compiled from primary sources held in the NHI Archive.
Credentials & Roles
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Other
Role
Norwegian-American aviator
Sources
Exhibition pages
Archive Sources
This profile was editorially curated from primary sources in the NHI Archive, including newsletters, books, government documents, and witness testimony.
