SUMMARY OF AIR FORCE EXPERIENCE, COLONEL BERNT BALCHEN Reel 1 · Part 2
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Covers interview with Col. Bernt Balchen (Ret) polar aviator and explorer who relates his past AF experiences. These experiences include his association with polar explores Roald Amundsen and Adm. Richard E. Byrd, his duties as a ferry pilot with the RAF, his transfer to the Army Air Force, his assignment to Greenland by Gen. H. H. Arnold and the encounter with the German weather station there, and his mission to Sweden and Norway in 1943 as an OSS agent.
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Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and Organizations
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Moving Images Relating to Military Aviation Activities
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