REAR ADMIRAL RICHARD E. BYRD - DOCUMENT SIGNED 07/23/1917 - HFSID 4007
Price: $900.00
RICHARD E. BYRD. Partly Printed DS: "R.E. Byrd" as Lieutenant "jg", U.S. Navy
for the Chief of Bureau, 1p, 13½x5½. No place, 1917 July 23. On vellum. Headed:
"Certificate of Qualification-Aeronautic School". In part: "This is to certify that
Corporal Thomas L. Moody U.S.M.C. has qualified as Airman in the United States
Navy, having completed the prescribed course of instruction in the Aeronautic School,
Enlisted Men's Class, on March 10, 1917, attaining a proficiency of 92.5 per cent…."
After being graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1912, Byrd served in the Navy for
three years until 1915 when he was forced to retire because of old leg injuries. He returned to
duty in 1917, entering the Navy's aviation branch, winning his pilot's wings in 1918.
The then-28-year-old lieutenant has added "jg" for "junior grade" next to his rank
which had been penned in another hand. In 1926, Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first
to fly over the North Pole. In 1929, Byrd established the "Little America" Antarctica base and
flew over the South Pole. On his Antarctic expeditions in the 1930s, Rear Admiral Byrd
discovered Marie Byrd Land and the Edsel Ford Mountains. Still exploring in his late 60s, he
commanded the Operation High Jump (1946-1947) and Operation Deep Freeze (1955-1956)
expeditions. Lightly creased. Soiled, lightly creased. 2 file holes and 2 nailhead-size holes at left
margin. Folds, vertical fold touches "y" in Byrd. Laminated.
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