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Married. Bernt Balchen. pilot for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on trans-Atlantic and Polar flights; and Emmy Soerlie, of Brooklyn; at Coytesville...
...Bernt Balchen, Norse aviator who flew Richard Evelyn Byrd across the Atlantic and over the South Pole, learned that because his intended five-year residence in America had been broken by two years in Little America he would be penalized, have to wait two extra years before he can file his second citizenship papers...
...Augustus Lindbergh's. Through their Congress the citizens paid acknowledgment by raising Byrd from Commander to Rear-Admiral, an act unprecedented since Robert Edwin Peary discovered the North Pole.† But air-minded citizens might dispute Admiral Byrd's preëminence by bringing in Pilot Bernt Balchen, who actually flew the Byrd ship to the South Pole, or by pointing to Endurance Flyers Dale ("Red") Jackson and Forest O'Brien who kept the St. Louis Robin aloft longer than any living thing has ever flown...
...Comparable to him in Arctic experience and flying skill, but not in navigation, are Bernt Balchen, Commander Byrd's chief pilot in Antarctica and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen, both Norwegians. Last week Riiser-Larsen flew from the whaling ship Norvegia in Antarctic waters and took possession of newly discovered land for Norway across the polar continent from Byrd's quarters...
...Henry Mears and the late Captain Charles B. D. Collyer-23 days, 15 hours, made by air- plane and steamship in 1928. Last week Mr. Mears declared that he would next year try to fly the earth in 16 days with an amphibian. The pilot he wants: burly Bernt Balchen, now with Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in Antarctica...