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    Base in Alaska, Carl Ben Eielson Middle School Fargo, ND and Carl Ben Eielson Elementary School Grand Forks, ND as well as Ben Eielson Junior-Senior High...
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    redesignated Eielson Air Force Base on 13 January 1948. It has been a Superfund site since 1989. Eielson AFB was named in honor of polar pilot Carl Ben Eielson. Its...
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    The Carl Ben Eielson House, a Queen Anne style house on 8th St. in Hatton, North Dakota, was built in 1900. It has also been known as Osking House. It...
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  • Carl Benjamin Eielson: Eielson Air Force Base, located near Fairbanks, Alaska Ben Eielson Junior/Senior High School, located at Eielson AFB Carl Ben Eielson...
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    Hatton is the birthplace of 20th century Arctic explorer and pilot Carl Ben Eielson. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total...
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  • original on September 7, 2006. Retrieved September 17, 2007. "About Carl Ben Eielson". Eielson Air Force Base. Archived from the original on April 12, 2008....
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  • instructs 7,200 students. The current[as of?] superintendent is Terry Brenner. Ben Franklin Elementary School Century Elementary School Discovery Elementary...
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    The New York Times. 1927-01-14. Retrieved 2007-02-16.[dead link] Carl "Ben" Eielson Biography, National Aviation Hall of Fame Archived 2007-07-07 at the...
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    including 8 commercial airports. Notable North Dakota aviators include Carl Ben Eielson, Bruce Peterson, and James Buchli. North Dakota's first aeronautical...
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    - Into the Wild Blue Yonder (2000). Alaska's first bush pilot was Carl Ben Eielson, a North Dakota farm boy of Scandinavian descent who flew during World...
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  • Bellande, he said, "She's a pippin!" Wilkins selected Arctic flyer Carl Ben Eielson to pilot the Vega on a planned flight from Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost...
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    June 14, 1930, to honor Carl Ben Eielson (1897–1929), for the pioneering work in aviation he performed in Alaska. Ben Eielson made the first airplane...
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    Ellsworth) becomes the first verified trip to the North Pole 1928: Carl Ben Eielson–Hubert Wilkins Arctic Ocean crossing 1928: The airship Italia (Umberto...
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    Airplanes took over Alaskan mail delivery in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1924, Carl Ben Eielson flew the first Alaskan airmail delivery. Dog sleds were used to patrol...
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    the first and fourth governor of Alaska 1959–1966 and 1970–1974. Carl Ben Eielson (1897–1929), pioneering aviator. Vic Fischer (1924–2023), another surviving...
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    1928 - First aeroplane flight over Antarctica by Hubert Wilkins and Carl Ben Eielson 1929–1931 – British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition...
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    Josh Duhamel, Emmy Award-winning actor and former male fashion model Carl Ben Eielson, aviator, bush pilot and explorer CariDee English, winner of Cycle...
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    made from the fur of American black bears. A seal fur coat worn by Carl Ben Eielson (1897–1929), USAF pilot and Arctic explorer A fur store in Tallinn...
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    Arctic Circle twice. Visited landmarks included where American aviator Carl Ben Eielson was lost, and the birthplace of Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnev. The...
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    March 1927, Wilkins and pilot Carl Ben Eielson explored the drift ice north of Alaska, touching down upon it in Eielson's airplane in the first land-plane...
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    to the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition. From 1927, Wilkins and pilot Carl Ben Eielson began exploring the Arctic by aircraft. On 15 April 1928, only a year...
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  • "Carl Ben Eielson" (PDF). University of Alaska Anchorage. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 25, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2015. "Carl Ben Eielson:...
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    the original Eagle Farm Airport, was renamed Southern Cross Way. Carl "Ben" Eielson, NAHF Archived 7 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine (Pilot of the Detroiter)...
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  • – (1922–2000) American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Peanuts Carl Ben Eielson – (1897–1929) aviator, bush pilot and explorer Jafet Lindeberg – (1873–1962)...
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    Raiders of the Lost Ark, original Star Wars trilogy; born in Fargo Carl Ben Eielson – aviator; born in Hatton Anthony W. England (born 1942) – NASA astronaut;...
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    flight crashed in a Siberian winter storm, killing aviation pioneer Carl Ben Eielson and his mechanic in 1929. Swenson's memoir Northwest of the World contains...
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  • captained the U.S. Olympic Ski Team in 1932 and 1936; pilot/explorer Carl Ben Eielson, the first person to fly nonstop over the top of the world; North Dakotan...
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    which are frozen most of the year. The island is named after pilot Carl Ben Eielson and mechanic Earl Borland who crashed near it in 1929.[citation needed]...
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  • and accompanying photos "Carl Ben Eielson". Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame. Retrieved February 1, 2020. Hatton Eielson Museum official website v...
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  • service, 3rd Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff January 29, 1996 Carl Ben Eielson Career as an aviator August 26, 1997 Warren Christopher Career as a...
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