RICHARD E. BYRD MEDAL OF HONOR MEMORIAL PLAQUE
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Medal of Honor Plaques
Year Dedicated: 1999
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: WORLD WAR II
Photograph By: DEVRY BECKER JONES
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
For distinguishing himself conspicuously by courage and intrepidity at the risk of his life, in demonstrating that it is possible for aircraft to travel in continuous flight from a now inhabited portion of the earth over the North Pole and return.
Byrd, along with Machinist Floyd Bennett, was presented with the Medal of Honor by President Calvin Coolidge on March 5, 1927.
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