TY  - GEN
AU  - Balchen,Bernt
AU  - Balchen,Audrey S.
AU  - Balchen,Bernt
AU  - Kocivar,Ben
TI  - Bernt Balchen papers,
KW  - Byrd, Richard Evelyn,
KW  - Ellsworth, Lincoln,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Air Corps
KW  - Army Air Forces
KW  - Josephine Ford (Trimotor)
KW  - Norske luftfartselskap
KW  - Air bases
KW  - Greenland
KW  - Transatlantic flights
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Aerial operations
KW  - Underground movements
KW  - Norway
KW  - Antarctica
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Air Force officers
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Aviators
KW  - Explorers
N1  - Restrictions apply; Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material
N2  - Diaries; logbooks; autobiographical notes; research file of Balchen's wife, Audrey S. Balchen; scrapbooks; photographs; and other papers relating to Balchen's career in aviation and exploration.  Documents his service as pilot on Richard Evelyn Byrd's 1927 transatlantic flight and on Antarctic expeditions with Byrd (1928-1930) and Lincoln Ellsworth (1933-1935); his World War II service with the U.S. Army Air Corps (later the Army Air Forces) including construction of an air base on Greenland and support for the Norwegian underground resistance movement; and his work with Norske luftfartselskap (Norwegian Airlines) in the 1930s and 1940s.  Includes Balchen's log (1926) for the trimotor Josephine Ford; drafts of his autobiography, Come North with Me : An Autobiography (1958); and an interview with Balchen by Ben Kocivar
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009032
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009032.3
ER  -