Talk:Richard Evelyn Byrd

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Contents 1 Missing RADM Richard Cruzen Kudos 1.1 Re*Cycling RO/CS USCG Lessons Learned 2 Missing diary? 3 "Mysterious Events" References?

[edit] Missing RADM Richard Cruzen Kudos

The third culminating expedition, Operation Highjump, was the largest Antarctic expedition to date.

Byrd also commanded Operation Deep Freeze,
which established permanent Antarctic bases at McMurdo Sound, the Bay of Whales and the South Pole in 1955

[edit] Re*Cycling RO/CS USCG Lessons Learned

• historic photo gallery: US Coast Guard icebreakers
  • Operation: HIGHJUMP:

"In March 1947 the icebreaker Eastwind was returning from Antarctica where it had
... ADM Cruzen, in charge of the ships of HIGHJUMP, reported ...
RJBurkhart 22:14, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

• Operation Highjump

The US Navy also strongly emphasised that Operation Highjump was going to be a ...
under the military command of Rear Admiral Richard Cruzen (above, left). ...

• Operation Highjump: The Great Antarctic Expedition...
  appointed Captain Richard Cruzen as commander of Operation Nanook.

Eastwind and Southwind were the only two Wind Class icebreakers to see active service during the war. Both were involved with the capture of the German trawler Extersteine in Greenland.

• History: USS Norton Sound (AVM-1) ...

Operation Nanook - On February 12, 1946, Congress approved Public Law 296 directing the chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau to establish "an international meteorological reporting network in the Arctic regions of the Western Hemisphere". The Weather Bureau turned to the army and navy and together, the three agencies came up with a plan to build reporting stations that summer at Thule, Greenland and at the southern tip of Melville Island in the Canadian Arctic.

The U.S. Atlantic Fleet commander, Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, selected a few ships, designated them Task Force 68, and appointed Captain Richard Cruzen as commander of "Operation Nanook". Admiral Curzen's first orders, issued May 31, 1946, called for a general plan whose second phase consisted "of operations to establish weather observation and reporting stations of the U.S. Weather Bureau" in the Canadian Arctic and Greenland.

Additionally, Cruzen ordered one icebreaker, the USCGC Eastwind, along with a seaplane tender, the Norton Sound, to operate "in the general vicinity of the southern limit of the ice pack which is expected to be encountered in the Baffin Bay area". This may have been a peaceful project to make weather observations in the Arctic, but an interesting argument could be made that these stations would be additionally used as intelligence gathering sites.

With these two projects the U.S. Navy began its effort to systematically expose men and machine to the rigors of polar life.);

• atlantis part2 ... and Rear Admiral Richard Cruzen (fresh from Operation Frostbite ...
  Citing The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Project one more time:

• The Frederick A. Cook Society

He claimed pioneering experience guiding US Navy ships through the treacherous ...
Thomas, backed by the courage of Rear Admiral Richard Cruzen, made that ...
RJBurkhart 20:46, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Missing diary?

Perhaps some mention should be made of Byrd's purported "missing diary" detailing voyages to the inner earth? 153.104.16.114 04:50, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

With respect, can "a missing diary detailing voyages to the inner earth" be history? On the same theme, however, the information in the "El Mercurio" article of 5 March 1947 suggests that Adm Byrd might have been at some time in a region which bears similarities to that visited at the other pole by the Greek navigator Pytheas in -350. (See Wikipedia, "Phantom Islands, Thule"). Whether that can be quoted is problematical. Geoffreybrooks 18 June 2006

[edit] "Mysterious Events" References?

I'm all for asking reasonable, well-informed questions on the subject of potential supernatural phenomena, but it seems to me that the two paragraphs devoted to the discussion of unknown facts related to the Antarctic expeditions do nothing to even remotely answer any of the questions, thus being potentially problematic for a biographical article. I wonder whether the rest of you have similar reservations about keeping them in place. Badbilltucker 19:50, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

I've no reservations about removing the UFO section from the article -- it reads as though someone else came along and tried to slip in a bit of writing on a totally different topic; the tone of content just doesn't match up with the rest. Also, if it's really necessary to keep some info. on UFOs and Byrd, it'd be best as a small piece of trivia, similar to the trivia section in the Operation Highjump article. Wallless 03:14, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

I think the whole section should be excised. Jinian 21:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC)