If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations. (Richard E. Byrd)

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

Richard E. Byrd

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