Video in the News: Polar Explorer Richard Byrd

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December 7, 2005—U.S. Navy Admiral Richard Byrd made aviation history on November 29, 1929, when he and his crew became the first to fly over the South Pole. Learn how Byrd navigated the frigid and mostly unmapped expanses of Antarctica—without a compass—to wing his way into the record books.

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