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dated March 13, 1957: Polar explorer dead

Rear-Admiral Richard Byrd, the first man to fly over both the North and South Poles, died at his home in Boston on March 11, of a heart ailment brought on by overwork. He was 68. The Rear-Admiral, a pioneering air explorer, was appointed over-all head of the US Navy's Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica last year. He was in command of the Macmillan Arctic Expedition in 1925, and flew over North Pole in 1926. He flew across the Atlantic in 1927 and in 1929 made the first flight over the South Pole.

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