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Selected Bibliography Manuscript Sources The major source for this biography is the 495 boxes (523 cubic feet) of Richard Byrd’s personal correspondence, official reports, and other documents together with photographs and maps that constitute the Admiral Richard E. Byrd Papers housed as Record Group 56.1 at the Byrd Polar Research Center Archives, The Ohio State University, Columbus. Other important sources on Byrd’s life and times include the following: Balchen, Bernt, Collection. Primarily personal correspondence, 11 boxes. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Byrd, Richard E., Collection. Handley Regional Library, Winchester, Va. Clayton, William L., Papers. Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Mo. Goodale, Edward, Papers. Accession 19975. Byrd Polar Research Center Archives, The Ohio State University, Columbus. Gould, Laurence McKinley, Papers. National Archives Records Administration, Suitland, Md. Konter, Richard W., Papers. Accession 19861. Byrd Polar Research Center Archives , The Ohio State University, Columbus. Lindsey, Alton A., Papers. Various accession numbers. Byrd Polar Research Center Archives, The Ohio State University, Columbus. Roos, A. Edward, Papers. Accession 199810. Byrd Polar Research Center Archives, The Ohio State University, Columbus. Siple, Paul, Papers. National Archives Records Administration, Suitland, Md. Truman, Harry S., Papers. President’s General Files; President’s Secretary’s Files; Senatorial and Vice Presidential Files. Harry S. Truman Library, Independence , Mo. Waite, Amory H., Papers. Accession 19851. Byrd Polar Research Center Archives, The Ohio State University, Columbus. 515 Oral History Collections Raimund Goerler, Brian Shoemaker, and others have conducted numerous oral history interviews under the auspices of The Ohio State University’s Polar Oral History Program administered jointly by the American Polar Society and the Byrd Polar Research Center, funded by the National Science Foundation. A list of all interviews conducted and those currently online is at the Polar Archives’ Web site, http://library.osu.edu/sites/archives/polar.Thefollowingproved particularly useful: Cliff Bekkedahl Gordon Fountain William S. McCormick Donald McLean Robert Newcomb Jackie Ronne James Van Allen Unpublished Diaries, Recollections, and Papers While researching the history of Operation Highjump, published as Assault on Eternity: The Exploration of Antarctica, 1946–47 (1980), I spoke with a number of “Byrd’s boys” who are no longer with us, most notably Amory “Bud” Waite, Richard B. Black, and Richard Conger. For this work, Wendell Summers, a pilot on Highjump, provided me with further insights about Admiral Byrd together with a copy of the diary Summers kept while on the expedition. I am indebted to Elgin Long and Colonel William Molett for their willingness to share unpublished research papers (“Flying to the Sun: Richard Byrd’s Conquest of the North Pole” and “Yes, Richard Byrd Made It to the North Pole,” respectively) concerning Byrd’s controversial 1926 flight. Brian Shoemaker kindly placed me in contact with both highly experienced Arctic flyers. In addition, Mr. Summers provided invaluable information on the critical question of aircraft ski position and drag. I also remain deeply indebted to the individual, whose name I have inexcusably forgotten, who provided me with a copy ofThomas Poulter’s riveting, unpublished account, “The Winter Trip to Advance Base,” the fullest and frankest revelation of events, not only the daring attempts to rescue Byrd from his solitary 1934 vigil on the ice but also the tumultuous events at Little America II that preceded the efforts. Finally, I am deeply grateful to Bolling Byrd Clarke and to Senator Harry Flood Byrd Jr. for sharing their thoughts and memories about a remarkable father and uncle, and to Thomas Poulter Jr. for recollections of his father, the de facto commander at Little America during the critical portions of the second Byrd Antarctic expedi516 Selected Bibliography 44.197.113.64] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 09:36 GMT) tion. Senator Byrd spoke to my wife and me for most of an October morning in 2001 at his office in Winchester, and followed up with a letter of clarification. Mrs. Clarke responded fulsomely to several e-mail queries during the course of my research . Mr. Poulter kindly granted permission to quote from his father’s recollections . Published Diaries Paine, M. L., ed. Footsteps on the Ice: The Antarctic Diaries of Stuart D. Paine, Second Byrd Expedition. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2007. This diary is in a class by itself as an exciting and informative firsthand contemporary account of the joys and rigors of an early Antarctic expedition. Passel, Charles F. Ice: The Antarctic Diary of Charles F. Passel. Ed. Tim Baughman. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1995. This source contains a wealth of material about the...