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Just Before Flight
Sir Hubert Wilkins (left) and Pilot "Dutch" Underhill are flying in the Douglas mail 'plane (above), bound for Pacific coast. Upon arrival at the west coast the explorer will confer, with his backers regarding his proposed submarine trip to the North Pole.
Spanish Fliers Make Brazil
Missing Airmen Found
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The safe return of Captain Kingsford-Smith, upper right, and his companions who were lost in the wildest section of Australia, caused feelings of great relief. Captain Ulm, lower left, one missing, flew with Captain Kingsford-Smith in the epoch-making flight of the "Southern Cross" from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia, last year. The daring aviators had hopped off in the "Southern Cross to By to London by easy stages but were forced down among semi-cannibalistic tribes, which live in the Wyndham area of Australia. Upper left shows the hop-off from San Francisco and lower right the end of their great fight over the. Pacific at Sydn ey.
Byrd Antarctic Expedition
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929.
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Captains Francisco Jimenez and Ignacio Iglesias, shown stand- ing in front of their plane, "Jesus del Gran Poder," at Seville, Spain, flew across the Atlantic from Seville, Spain, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
When Il Duce Won All the Votes
This picture shows the giant tri-motored Fokker being unloaded from the flagship "New York" at the South Polar base of the Byrd expedition, Twelve men from the expedition arrived in San Francisco and told of the heartbreaking struggles of the members at the great ice barrier which Byrd intends to explore.
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Final Resting Place
Here is shown the casket holding the mortal remains of Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, being carried into the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral at Cleveland, Ohio, his home town. The diplomat was accorded full military honours..
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This general view shows the crowds of thousands of Cleveland- ites waiting to enter the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral where the late Ambassador Herrick's body lay in state.
Here is "Little Ameries, the base camp of the Byrd Expedition into the Antarctic regions, located eight, milas in on the great ice barrier on which Commander Byrd expects to remain two
years to explore to whole ice cap.
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