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Navy secretary presents medal to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Washington, D.C., Oct. 15. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U.S.N. Retired, and members of his second Antarctic Expedition were presented with silver medals today by Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson. Congress authorized the award of the medals on June 2, 1936. In the photograph, left to right: Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Rear Admiral William H. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, Secretary Swanson, and William C. Haines, U.S. Weather Bureau Meteorologist and a member of the expedition. 101537
Navy secretary presents medal to Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Washington, D.C., Oct. 15. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, U.S.N. Retired, and members of his second Antarctic Expedition were presented with silver medals today by Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson. Congress authorized the award of the medals on June 2, 1936. In the photograph, left to right: Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Rear Admiral William H. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, Secretary Swanson, and William C. Haines, U.S. Weather Bureau Meteorologist and a member of the expedition. 10/15/37
Assistant Secretary of Navy rays tribute to Late Rear Admiral Peary. Memorial services commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the discovery of the North Pole by Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary were conducted at the grave of the explorer in Arlington National Cemetery today under the suspices of the Robert E. Peary Ship, Veterans of Foreign Wars. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest L. Jahncke is shown placing a wreath while on his right is Rear Admiral Luther E. Gregory, Chief of Civil Engineers, United States Navy
Assistant Secretary of Navy rays tribute to Late Rear Admiral Peary. Memorial services commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the discovery of the North Pole by Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary were conducted at the grave of the explorer in Arlington National Cemetery today under the suspices of the Robert E. Peary Ship, Veterans of Foreign Wars. The Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest L. Jahncke is shown placing a wreath while on his right is Rear Admiral Luther E. Gregory, Chief of Civil Engineers, United States Navy
Henry P. Davison, Chairman of the War council of the Amer. Base Hospital at Portsmouth, Eng. Here he met an old friend, Miss Katharine Kearney of Albany, who was nurse to the late Mrs. D. Rockefeller, Corporal J. DeSmidt of Chicago, who has just received the distinguished Conduct Medal from the British Army and has been recommended for further honors, for heroic work at the front. De Smidt lives at 3409 Belmont Ave., Chicago
Admiral Byrd admires medal awarded to aide on Antarctic expedition. Washington, D.C., April 27. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd admires the gold medal of the National Geographic Society which was awarded today to Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, (left) senior scientist and second in command of the Byrd Antarctic expedition of 1933-35. The presentation of the award was made by Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, President of the National Geographic Society, 4/27/37
Day tribute to Admiral Dewey of Navy Day. Members of the Military and Naval Order of the Spanish-American War paid tribute to Admiral Dewey today, Navy Day, at Washington Cathedral, where the hero of Manila Bay is buried. In the center of group, left to right: Capt. J.R. Roeside, representing the Navy; Col, Robert L. Longstreet of the Army; and Reverend George F. Dudley, who conducted the services
Polish Minister and party fly to Savannah, GA., to honor General Pulaski on 150th anniversary of death. The Polish Minister to the United States, Honorable Tytus Filipowicz and the American Minister to Poland John B. Stetson, with a party of friends left Washington by plane today for Savannah, GA., to attend ceremonies commemorating the 150th anniversary of the death of Brig. General Casimir Pulaski, hero of the siege of Savannah. In the photograph, left to right: Commander Louis Sable, French Naval Attache; Colonel Laborski; Polish Minister Filipowicz; Viktor Padoski, first secretary of Polish Legation; Waclaw Sicrosjowski, Polish author; and John B. Stotson, American Minister to Poland
Last survivor of Greely Arctic Expedition honored on 80th birthday. Washington, D.C., Dec. 21. Brig. General David L. Brainard, U.S.A. Retired, was singally honored today on the occasion of his 80th birthday. At a ceremony at the Army and Navy Club the famous explorer was presented with a scroll making him the first honorary member of the American Polar Society. Mrs. Marie Ahnighito Peary Stafford, daughter of the late Robert E. Peary, is shown making the presentation while Russel J. Walreth, Vice President of the American Polar Society, looks on
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1921
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Harris & Ewing, photographer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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