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	Bernt Balchen Linkpage
		It chronicles Balchen's relationship with the admiral from the early days -- Balchen served as chief pilot for Byrd's 1929 flight over the South Pole -- to the later days of acrimony, with Byrd purportedly using influence and attempted intimidation to remove Balchen from the limelight.
		It was in 1973 that Balchen was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio.
		Balchen was inducted in 1973 -- the same year as his induction into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in the U.S., and the year of his death.
	www.mnc.net /norway/balchen.htm (379 words)

	Bernt Balchen
		Bernt Balchen received his aviator's wings in 1921 and was commissioned a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Norwegian Naval Air Service.
		Balchen served as advisor to Richard E. Byrd in Arctic flying and upon emigration to the United States in 1926 he became a pilot of the famed Byrd team and Chief Test Pilot for Fokker Aircraft Corporation.
		Balchen was the hero of Byrd's 1927 transatlantic flight in the Fokker trimotor monoplane "America" when forced to circle fog bound Paris for three hours with fuel tanks nearly empty.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aerojava/balchen.htm (467 words)

	Bernt Balchen
		Bernt Balchen was born in Tveit, not far from Kristiansand, on October 23, 1899, and died in the United States in 1973.
		After the war, Balchen was commanding officer of the 10th Rescue Squadron in Alaska, and later served as special assistant on Arctic problems for the US Air Force.
		Bernt Balchen, in many ways, lived the life of a macho man. He was an explorer, a pilot, an adventurer, an athlete, a soldier and a hunter.
	www.luftfart.museum.no /Engelsk/Exhibitions/balchen.htm (823 words)

	BERNT BALCHEN Papers (Library of Congress)
		The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Bernt Balchen is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
		Prominent among the logbooks is Balchen's log for the trimotor Fokker _Josephine Ford_ for 1926.
		Balchen later cited his record of the performance of the plane to dispute Richard Evelyn Byrd's claim to have flown the same plane over the North Pole.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/balchen.html (864 words)

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		Balchen was chief pilot for Byrd's historic Antarctic Expedition in 1928-1930.
		In January of 1944 Balchen was transferred to the UK to work for the Air Transport Command and the OSS by opening an air transport route from the UK to Stockholm.
		Balchen was a founder and honorary chairman of the International Aviation Snow Symposium.
	www.necaaae.org /balchen.html (1148 words)

	Amazon.de: Bernt Balchen: Polar Aviatior: Polar Aviator (Smithsonian History of Aviation & Spaceflight): English Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This biography of Bernt Balchen tells the story of an aviation ground-breaker, the first person to fly over both of the poles, whose reputation and military career were undermined by one of his peers.
		Balchen, unfortunately, was the victim of a vendetta by a man for whom he had done much, Admiral Richard E. Byrd.
		Balchen was a strong, handsome man who would have been an Olympic boxer for Norway if he had not elected to learn to fly with the Norwegian navy.
	www.amazon.de /Bernt-Balchen-Aviatior-Carroll-Glines/dp/1560989068 (837 words)

	Balchen Main Text
		Balchen proved that it was a physical impossibility for Byrd's trimotor Fokker, the Josephine Ford, to have made it to the Pole and back during the time Byrd and his pilot Floyd Bennett were gone.
		Bernt had never done anything to harm Byrd's reputation; on the contrary, whenever someone brought up Byrd's name Bernt was always the first to praise him for his ability to get expeditions together and for his foresight in planning them in the first place.
		Bernt told Mooney that if he were to get a commission as a BG in the AF, it had to be on his own merits.
	userpages.prexar.com /kikut/BBMainText.htm (5726 words)

	037.html
		Balchen's skill as a pilot earned him fame as the first aviator to fly a plane over both the North and South poles, notoriety as the tutor for one of the first female fliers, and infamy as the man who would cast doubt on the accomplishments of adventurer and explorer Adm. Richard Byrd.
		Balchen flew various wartime missions and is credited with developing rescue techniques and arctic survival methods still used today.
		Balchen was Commander of the U.S. Air Force Rescue Squadron at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage until his retirement in 1956.
	www.uaf.edu /univrel/media/FY00/037.html (844 words)

	The American Experience \| Alone on the Ice \| People & Events \| Bernt Balchen
		When Byrd chose Balchen to be his pilot in his flight over the South Pole, Balchen was reportedly put off by Byrd's secrecy in coming to the decision.
		Balchen became a U.S. citizen in 1931 and rose to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Air Force.
		Balchen himself died in Mount Kisco, New York in 1973.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/ice/peopleevents/pandeAMEX88.html (453 words)

	Bernt Balchen, Colonel, United States Army Air Forces
		Whereas Bernt Balchen, on May 7, 1943, successfully led a bombing raid that destroyed the sole German post in Greenland, a weather station and antiaircraft battery on the east coast of Greenland, thereby hindering the ability of the German armed forces to predict weather patterns in the North Atlantic and Europe;
		Bernt Balchen, who was born in Norway, was a reserve pilot/engineer on the 1926 Amundsen/Ellsworth/Nobile Norge expedition in Spitsbergen when Commander Richard E. Byrd attempted to fly to the North Pole and return in the Josephine Ford.
		Bess Balchen was correspondent in the US for a Norwegian daily after World War II, a writer of short-shorts and articles, author of a cookbook (with Bernt Balchen) and a children's book.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /bbalchen.htm (1292 words)

	SDAM - Welcome to the San Diego Air & Space Museum
		Bernt Balchen was born in Tveit, Norway on October 23, 1899.
		The collection consists mainly of articles, letters, awards, telegrams, and correspondence regarding the aviation career of Colonel Balchen, most of which was donated by his wife Audrey S. Balchen.
		Colonel Balchen passed away in 1973 and was buried on his 74th birthday.
	www.aerospacemuseum.org /library/balchen.html (147 words)

	Hero in the sky (Norway - the official site in the United States)
		Bernt Balchen was one of those people who could save a country at war, and not make too much of a fuss about it.
		After emigrating to the United States in 1926, Balchen was the hero of Richard E. Byrd's 1927 transatlantic flight in the Fokker trimotor monoplane "America," when then plane was forced to circle fog-covered Paris for three hours with fuel tanks nearly empty.
		Bernt Balchen was awarded the Harmon Trophy for his arctic achievements.
	www.norway.org /News/archive/1999/199995hero.htm (841 words)

	The Last of the Polar Firsts
		At the controls was the legendary arctic aviation pioneer, Air Force Colonel Bernt Balchen.
		It was hardly a momentous event in the light of Balchen's earlier achievements in arctic aviation and his World War II war-time record in the far north, but one which gave him the distinction of being the first to pilot a plane to both poles of the earth.
		Throughout his career, Balchen's achievements in aviation were constantly overshadowed by those attributed to Richard Byrd.
	members.tripod.com /PolarFlight/balchen.htm (201 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bernt Balchen (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		Bernt Balchen[bArnt bAl´kun] Pronunciation Key, 1899–1973, Norwegian-American aviator.
		He headed one of the search expeditions for Amundsen and Ellsworth in 1925 and was a member of their 1926 expedition to the Arctic.
		He was second pilot on Byrd's transatlantic flight in 1927 and was the hero of the forced night landing of Byrd's plane in the surf on the Normandy coast.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Balchen.html (233 words)

	AAHS Book Reviews - Bernt Balchen, Polar Aviator
		Bernt Balchen was a true American hero who is unknown to most of the American public.
		Balchen was especially qualified to tackle a tough flying job in the high latitudes.
		Balchen's problems with Byrd came to a head when he questioned and cast doubts on Byrd's North Pole flight in 1926.
	www.aahs-online.org /BkReviews/BerntBalchen.htm (276 words)

	Air Force Magazine
		Balchen kept compulsively detailed flight logs, and Byrd seemed suspicious that the Norwegian was trying to catch him at something.
		Balchen was introspective, writing that he was glad to leave the pole.
		Balchen retired from the Air Force in 1956 and died in 1973.
	www.afa.org /magazine/nov2004/1104pole.asp (2643 words)

	Ditching of the 'America'
		Balchen, a Norwegian test pilot for Fokker, and former member of Roald Amundsen's airship expedition to the North Pole in 1926, was personally given $500 by Fokker for accepting the assignment, and also was outfitted for the journey by Wanamaker's department store in Paris.
		Balchen took the controls of the aircraft, flying the plane 150 miles back to the west and, low on fuel, forced a water landing 300 yards off the shore near Ver-sur-Mer, in Normandy.
		Bernt Balchen continued to fly with Byrd, and 1929, came the first pilot to fly over the South Pole.
	www.check-six.com /Crash_Sites/America-NX206.htm (1914 words)

	Bernt Balchen (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Image:BerntBalchen.JPG Bernt Balchen, D.F.C., (23 October 1899 – 17 October 1973), was a Norwegian-American polar (and general) aviation pioneer.
		First person to fly over the South Pole, as pilot for Byrd's flight on 28–29 November 1929 (Balchen never brought the North Pole fraud up in public before his autobiography was published in 1958, upon which the Byrd family promptly had the pertinent part of the book censored†).
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	bernt-balchen.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (713 words)

	Bernt Balchen Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Byrd invited Balchen to come to the US with him; he became a pilot on Byrd's 1927 transatlantic flight and chief pilot on Byrd's flight to the South Pole in 1929.
		During World War II, as commanding officer of Task Force 8, Bernt Balchen established the air base Bluie West 8 on the southwest coast of Greenland.
		On October 23, 1999, the centennial of Balchen's birth, King Harald V of Norway unveiled in Kristiansand a statue of him.
	userpages.prexar.com /kikut/BBbio.htm (219 words)

	Balchen
		In 1927, Balchen was a pilot on Admiral Byrd’s famous "almost first" flight across the Atlantic.
		After ferrying planes to England and Singapore for the British at the outbreak of World War II, Balchen was put in charge of America’s Greenland air base—so important for rescuing downed fliers—by US Army Air Force General Hap Arnold.
		A statue of Balchen was dedicated by Norway’s King Harald V in Kristiansand in 1999.
	www.homeatfirst.com /balchen.htm (207 words)

	The American Experience \| Alone on the Ice \| People & Events \| Bernt Balchen (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Arctic adventurers Richard E. Byrd, Roald Amundsen, and Lincoln Ellsworth had much in common, not the least of which was that they all knew and benefited from the expertise of aviation pioneer Bernt Balchen.
		One year later, again in Spitsbergen, Balchen would prove valuable to Richard E. Byrd when he helped fashion special skis, made of the oars of life boats, for Byrd's plane, the "Josephine Ford".
		In June, Byrd and pilots Bert Acosta and Bernt Balchen headed across the Atlantic.
	www.pbs.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wgbh/amex/ice/peopleevents/pandeAMEX88.html (453 words)

	392nd Stories
		The flight crews were composed of 1st pilots, navigators and radio operators who had completed their combat tour.
		Colonel Balchens plans were to extend this Airline operation from Stockholm to Helsinki, Finland and eventually on to Russia.
		I asked Col. Balchen if I could return home and explained I would not have been here in the first place if returning to the States had not been temporarily suspended.
	www.b24.net /stories/carnine.htm (1396 words)

	Balchen, Bess: Poles Apart: The Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Colonel Brent Balchen Odyssey
		Balchen, Bess: Poles Apart: The Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Colonel Brent Balchen Odyssey
		When Balchen made headlines on his own accord, with daring rescue missions and his work during World War II, it seemed hard for the Admiral to swallow.
		Byrd knew that Balchen was aware of his innermost secret, that he had not made it to the North Pole in 1926.
	www.forbesbookclub.com /BookPage.asp?prod_cd=IOFDH (214 words)

	The American Experience \| Alone on the Ice \| Bess Balchen Urbahn on: Bernt Balchen and the Flight of the Josephine Ford
		Bess Balchen Urbahn on: Bernt Balchen and the Flight of the Josephine Ford
		BESS: Bernt Balchen was a Lieutenant in the Norwegian Air Force.
		What he did was to ask him to come with him, to America, which Bernt, my husband, thought was praise enough because he was young and he was adventuresome and he thought this was a great opportunity.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/ice/filmmore/reference/interview/balchen01.html (416 words)

	Bernt Balchen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taking part in Roald Amundsen's attempt at flying an airship over the North Pole in 1926, though in a last minute decision by Amundsen he was not chosen for the final flight.
		When the plane ran out of fuel, Balchen landed the wheeled airplane in the sea just off the coast of France, without injury to the crew.
		Harmon Trophy winner, as well as recipient of the following military decorations in addition to the U.S. D.F.C.: the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Air Medal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernt_Balchen (535 words)

	36th BS - Schreiner Crew
		Schreiner and crew were first assigned to the 406th BS upon arriving at Alconbury in December of 1943, but this was quickly changed and they were reassigned to the 36th BS on 11 Dec '43.
		The ball turret was removed, seating was installed, and the five or six planes that Balchen had for Sonnie were painted a very dull gray with tail numbers that were barely distinguishable.
		By that time Balchen had sought and gained support for supporting the Norwegian Reistance in the same fashion as the Carpetbaggers had been doing since January '44.
	home.comcast.net /~defactohistorian/36thBS/36th-SchreinerCrew.html (505 words)

	The Next Fifty Years of Flight
		The first temptation, with futurologists of the past, is to mock their predictions that didn't come true.
		Bernt Balchen, a Norwegian-American expert on aircraft and missiles, gave a series of interviews to journalist Erik Bergaust in the early 1950s, and this book appeared in 1954, marking the 50th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight.
		It turns out Balchen wasn't talking about Pyrex; he related his view to current work on phenolic resin materials reinforced with glass fibers.
	www.benteague.com /books/titles/nextfiftyyears.html (918 words)

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