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In 1928, Admiral Byrd began his first expedition to the Antarctic involving two ships, and three airplanes: Byrd's Flagship was The City of New York ( a Norwegian sealing ship previously named Samson that had come into fame as a ship in the vicinity of Titanic when the latter was sinking ); a Ford Trimotor called the Floyd Bennett ( named after the recently deceased pilot of Byrd's previous expeditions ); a Fairchild FC-2W2, NX8006, built 1928, named " Stars And Stripes " ( now displayed at the Virginia Aviation Museum, on loan from the National Air and Space Museum ); and a Fokker Universal monoplane called the Virginia ( Byrd's birth state ).
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The official diploma presented to Italian Admiral Ernesto Burzagli when he was awarded membership in the National Geographic Society in 1928.
In October 1928, Raeder was promoted to Admiral and made Commander-in-Chief of the Reichsmarine, the Weimar Republic Navy ( Oberbefehlshaber der Reichsmarine ).
From 1928 onwards, Raeder used his close friend, the retired Admiral Magnus von Levetzow who had become a Nazi as his contact with Adolf Hitler.
In 1928, Eagle Scout ( and Erie native ) Paul Siple was one of the first Scouts to travel to Antarctica with Admiral Richard Byrd.
King George V was depicted in 1911 as Admiral of the Fleet in a widely-admired design that continued in use until 1928.
Reinhard Scheer ( 30 September 1863 – 26 November 1928 ) was an Admiral in the German Kaiserliche Marine.
His eldest son Robert Fanshawe Stopford ( 1811 – 1891 ) was an Admiral in the Royal Navy and was the father of 1 ) Robert Wilbraham Stopford ( 1844 – 1911 ), a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy, 2 ) Arthur Bouverie Stopford ( 1845 – 1902 ), a Colonel in the Royal Artillery and 3 ) Frederick George Stopford ( 1852 – 1928 ), a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy ; while his second son James John Stopford ( 1817 – 1868 ) was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy.
* 1928: Promoted Rear Admiral Commanded HMS Valiant.
The word Jellicoe was seen in Levy's notebook, and a connection was assumed to the Minister rather than the building ; a structure named after the earl's distant cousin, and one that may have been opened by the Admiral himself in June 1928.
* Frank Friday Fletcher ( 1855 – 1928 ), U. S. Navy Admiral, namesake of the USS Fletcher ( DD-445 )
From October 1925 until his retirement in June 1928, Coontz served as Commandant of the Fifth Naval District, reverting to the rank of Rear Admiral.
Vice Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas GCB, KCMG, MVO ( 27 October 1862 – 30 August 1928 ) was a British Royal Navy officer.
* James Harrison Oliver ( 1857 – 1928 ), a Rear Admiral in the U. S. Navy
Rear Admiral Lam Nguon Tanh ( Vietnamese: Lâm Nguơn Tánh ) ( born 1928, Sadec, Vietnam ) last was Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Vietnam Navy during the Vietnam War.
On 5 October 1928 Bauer was appointed Chief of the Naval Command, but on 30 November 1928, on his promotion to Admiral, he retired.
*, a Bagley-class destroyer named for Rear Admiral Victor Blue ( 1865 – 1928 ), which served from 1937 until sunk in combat in 1942.
Rear Admiral Remey died at Washington, D. C. on 10 February 1928.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Baronet GCB, GCMG, GCVO ( 10 June 1862 – 20 January 1928 ) was an Irish admiral in the British Royal Navy who commanded the Allied naval force in the Dardanelles during World War I.
Admiral of the Fleet John David Elliott Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse, GCB, GBE ( 12 February 1928 – 17 February 1992 ) was a Royal Navy officer.
In 1983, he edited The Old Navy: The Glorious Heritage of the U. S. Navy, Recounted through the Journals of an American Patriot by Rear Admiral Daniel P. Mannix, 3rd, his father's posthumously-published autobiographical account of his life and naval career from the Spanish-American War of 1898 until his retirement in 1928.
He dropped out of Harvard in 1928 when he heard that Admiral Richard E. Byrd was organizing an expedition to Antarctica.
Admiral Byrd accepted him on the 1928 – 1932 expedition, eventually naming a mountain on the continent in his honor.
1928 and Byrd
* Entrata for orchestra, after " The Bells " by William Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ) ( 1928, reworked 1941 )
When Hauser delivered the new instrument Segovia had ordered, Segovia passed his 1928 Hauser to his U. S. representative and close friend Sophocles Papas, who gave it to his classical guitar student, the famous jazz and classical guitarist Charlie Byrd, who used it on several records.
The community got its name from the Little America motel which was purposefully located in a remote location as a haven, not unlike the base camp the polar explorer Richard E. Byrd set up in the Antarctic in 1928.
A Fairchild aircraft, the Virginia, was taken as one of three aircraft by Richard E. Byrd on his 1928 – 1929 expedition to the South Pole.
Ny-Ålesund was the basis for four attempts between 1925 and 1928, including Roald Amundsen's attempt with first a flying boat ; Floyd Bennett and Richard E. Byrd claimed they succeeded in 1926, but this has since been rejected.
Paul Siple in 1932Paul Allman Siple ( December 18, 1908 – November 25, 1968 ) was an American Antarctic explorer and geographer who took part in six Antarctic expeditions, including the two Byrd expeditions of 1928 – 1930 and 1933 – 1935, representing the Boy Scouts of America as an Eagle Scout.
Berkner Island was named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( US-ACAN ) for American physicist Lloyd Berkner, engineer with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition ( 1928 – 1930 ).
* 1928 – 1930: Richard Evelyn Byrd – first expedition
* Byrd Theatre, Richmond, Virginia-4 manuals, 17 ranks ( Wurlitzer, 1928 )
It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 for Laurence M. Gould, a geologist who was second-in-command of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1928 – 30.
* Byrd Theatre, Richmond, Virginia, 1928
They were discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1934, and named for William C. Haines, the meteorologist of the Byrd expeditions of 1928 – 30 and 1933 – 35.
Floyd Bennett ( October 25, 1890 – April 25, 1928 ) was an American aviator who piloted Richard E. Byrd on his attempt to reach the North Pole in 1926.
The Byrd Theatre opened for the first time on December 24, 1928.
1928 and began
The John E. Mitchell Co. began work in Dallas in 1928.
As early as 1928, however, the Sloan style began to change.
A partial formalization of the concept began with attempts to solve the Entscheidungsproblem ( the " decision problem ") posed by David Hilbert in 1928.
The modern theory of antimatter began in 1928, with a paper by Paul Dirac.
This began in his doctoral work leading to the Mordell – Weil theorem ( 1928, and shortly applied in Siegel's theorem on integral points ).
He began studying the Nahuatl language in 1925, and later, beginning in 1928, he studied the collections of Maya hieroglyphic texts.
Asquith died in 1928 and the enigmatic figure of Lloyd George returned to the leadership and began a drive to produce coherent policies on many key issues of the day.
When filming began at the end of 1928, Chaplin had been working on the story for almost a year.
In 1928, construction of the Palomar Observatory began.
Since the KMT had completed the first step of revolution through seizure of power in 1928, Chiang's rule thus began a period of what his party considered to be " political tutelage " in Sun Yat-sen's name.
In 1928, Orwell began his career as a professional writer in Paris at a journal owned by the French Communist, Henri Barbusse.
Shearer's first marriage to writer John Ward was unhappy and she and Hawks began dating throughout 1927 until Shearer asked Ward for a divorce in 1928.
With all the main parties committed to the Union, new nationalist and independent political groupings began to emerge, including the National Party of Scotland in 1928 and Scottish Party in 1930.
Starting in 1928, but especially during the Great Depression, the government of King Zog, which brought law and order to the country, began to cede Albania's sovereignty to Italy.
Mamie ( 1840 – 1926 ) had been twenty-one years old and Sis ( 1848 – 1928 ) thirteen when the Civil War began.
Also in 1928, Paramount began releasing Inkwell Imps animated cartoons produced by Max and Dave Fleischer's Fleischer Studios in New York City.
On January 26, 1928, the National String Instrument Corporation was certified and, with its new factory located near a metal-stamping shop owned by Adolph Rickenbacher and staffed by some of the most experienced and competent craftsmen available, began to produce Spanish and Hawaiian style tri-cone guitars as well as four-string tenor guitars, mandolins and ukuleles.
Steiner immediately began work designing a second Goetheanum building – this time made of concrete instead of wood – which was completed in 1928, three years after his death.
The unraveling began, however, when Shinwari Pashtun tribesmen revolted in Jalalabad in November 1928.
Rudolf Lettner of Salzburg began marketing steel edges in 1928, enabling the ski to grip on hard snow ice.
Lehrer was born in 1928 to a Jewish family in the New York City borough of Manhattan, and began studying classical piano music at the age of seven.
He began work on the project in September 1928.
The Dictionary began to appear in print in 1884, but the first edition was not completed until 1928, 13 years after Murray's death, at a cost of around £ 375, 000.
By 1928, the similarity of van Meegeren ’ s paintings to those of the old masters began to draw the reproach of Dutch art critics, who were, at that time, more interested in the Cubist, Surrealist, and other movements.
However, when Deagan began marketing Schluter's instrument in 1928, they called it the vibraharp.
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