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Index 521 Abbott, George, 389 Acosta, Bert: after the transatlantic flight, 163, 170; on America’s transatlantic flight, 156, 158–63, 161; incapable of instrument flying, 156, 160; setting flying endurance record, 155; transatlantic flight attempt, 153 Adams, Harry, 291 Adams, Sherman, 449 Advance Base, in BAE II: Auroral Notebook of wintering at, 345, 355–56, 390; Byrd forbidding rescue attempt from, 355, 359; Byrd leaving for, 342, 383, 488n49; Byrd not discussing beforehand , 316, 339–40; Byrd wintering alone at, 314–16, 335, 339–40, 343– 45, 356; Byrd’s evaluation of experience , 355, 375, 402; Byrd’s illness at, 356, 368; Byrd’s life at, 346–47, 364– 65, 372–73; Byrd’s long-term health effects from, 379–80, 423, 433–34; Byrd’s recovery at, 206; Byrd’s requiring safety top concern in rescue from, 357, 363; Byrd’s rescue from, 354–58, 370– 73; commitment to work for peace reached at, 390–91; concerns about Byrd’s plan to winter in, 340–41, 349; construction of shack at, 315, 339; dismantling , 381; location of, 337; meetings about rescue attempts from, 362– 64; memorialized on medallion, 389; movies of Byrd and, 361, 368; opposition to rescue attempts from, 361–64, 502n36; problems at, 352–53, 360; radio communication from, 345–46, 358–60; rescue attempts from, 364, 366–67, 371–72; route for Byrd’s rescue from, 207; second rescue attempt from, 367–70; set up of, 337–39, 343, 346; shack at, 207, 356; stove problems in shack, 341, 354–55, 359; third rescue attempt from, 370–72 Aero Club of America, 37–38, 150 Aero Club of Norway, 102 Aero Digest, 123–24, 126 Aircraft. See also Aviation; Dirigibles Aircraft, for Amundsen and Ellsworth’s Arctic expedition, 71–72, 74–75 Aircraft, for BAE I, 217, 224, 258, 265; BAE II retrieving, 381; loss of Fokker, 244, 246–47; pilots for, 222–23, 242; on South Polar flight, 271–72, 274; transportation of, 224–25, 235–36 Aircraft, for BAE II, 316, 321, 352; autogiros , 317–18, 334, 338, 374; Fokker wrecked, 335, 339, 491n42; problems with, 322, 331; transportation to Advance Base, 315, 337–38, 342 Aircraft, for Byrd’s Arctic expedition, 64– 67, 101, 112, 115; amphibious, 62–63, 66, 71–72, 74–75; for Antarctic exploration , 189–90, 208, 314; choice of, 66, 106; heavier- vs. lighter-than-air, for polar flights, 62–63, 92, 97–100, 143; influences on fuel consumption in, 480n55; interest in, 50–52, 98–99; MacMillan preferring, 61, 92; multimotor , 104, 106, 154–56; planes vs. airships, 126–27; for polar expeditions, 60–61, 64, 103, 113; for polar flights, 103, 107, 118; problems launching, 117–18; single- vs. multiengine planes, 49–50, 154–56; USAS losing use of military equipment, 410, 412. See also Josephine Ford Aircraft, for Deep Freeze I, 457 Aircraft, for Ellsworth’s Antarctic expedition , 327 Aircraft, for German Antarctic expedition, 407 Aircraft, for MacMillan Arctic Expedition: Byrd and crew training on, 72–73; Byrd finding, 70–71; Byrd’s defense of, 97–98; criticisms of, 93–94; damage to, 88–90, 95; loading, 83, 86; mechanical problems, 92; reassembly of, 74, 82; used as seaplanes, 82–83, 86 Aircraft, for Operation Highjump, 429 Aircraft, for transatlantic flight attempts, 44–45, 51–53, 151–53. See also America Aircraft, for U.S. government expedition to Antarctica, 410, 412 Aircraft, for Wilkins’s second expedition, 266 Air Force, U.S., 47, 434–37, 478n39 Alaska, 435; Amundsen taking Norge to, 123, 142; in Byrd’s Arctic expedition plans, 64–65, 106; in MacMillan Arctic Expedition plans, 68, 74; in Wilkins and de Bayser’s polar expedition plans, 102–3, 112 Alber, Louis, 175 Alcock, John, 41, 45, 152 Alcohol. See Drinking Allen, Frederick Lewis, 5, 147, 166, 277, 287 Alone, 18, 402–3 America (airplane for Byrd’s transatlantic flight), 158–63; crash of, 154, 224; crew for, 155–56; Fokker and, 152– 54; ready to fly again, 156; test flights of, 154, 157 America First Committee, 417–19 American Antarctic Association, 438, 441 American Friends Service Committee, 391–92 American Geographical Society, 282 American Highland, Antarctica, 406, 497n2 American Legion, 294, 296, 300 Ames family, 26–27, 298 Amundsen, Roald, 2; Antarctic expeditions of, 183, 188–89, 234–35, 269, 271; Arctic expeditions of, 55, 71–75, 102, 112–13, 141–42; Balchen and, 123, 139–40; bankruptcy of, 180; Byrd and, 105, 151; Byrd’s North Pole flight and, 117, 122...