Upon his death on March 11, 1957, Richard Byrd was buried in this cemetery with full military honors
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THE LAST SALUTE: CIVIL AND MILITARY FUNERALS  May 24, 2005 ... The ceremonies of the public funeral salute his accomplishments in life and ... On 14 December 1799, General George Washington died at Mount ... Former President William Howard Taft, State Funeral, 8-11 March 1930 ... Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Full Honor (Company) Funeral, 11-14 March 1957.
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Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr (1888 - 1957) - Find A Grave Memorial  Jan 1, 2001 ... Death: Mar. 11, 1957. Boston Suffolk County Massachusetts, USA ... rock from the grave into his pocket so that he could honor his friend properly. ... The plane, which he named Floyd Bennett, took 19 hours to complete the world record flight. ... Burial: Arlington National Cemetery Arlington Arlington County
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Richard E. Byrd - Wikipedia  Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (October 25, 1888  March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration. He was a recipient of the Medal of Honor, the highest honor for valor given ..... Byrd died in his sleep on March 11, 1957, of a heart ailment at his Brimmer Street home in the...
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Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd - Arlington National Cemetery  Full Honor (Company) Funeral 11-14 March 1957. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer of the polar regions, died of a heart ailment at his home in...
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Admiral Byrd - Dictionnaires  Place of burial, Arlington National Cemetery ... Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (October 25, 1888  March 11, 1957) was a ... 1928-1930; 6 Byrd's later Antarctic expeditions; 7 Death; 8 Awards, decorations, honors; 9 Medal ... It is also claimed that Byrd confessed his failure to reach the North Pole during a long...
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American Cemeteries Around the World for Those Who Gave All for Us  There are 4,410 American military personnel buried in the cemetery. ... At this peaceful location rest 368 American military Dead, most of whom gave their lives in liberating Belgium in World War I. ... With a total of 17,206 graves, it is the largest cemetery in the Pacific for U.S. personnel killed during World War II, and also...
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The Nation's Cemetery - National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com  Every steamer up the Potomac River carried dead soldiers from Virginia battlefields, ... In desperate need of an expedient solution, Army quartermasters on May 13, 1864, ... Dig the holes, then cover 'em back up," Montgomery says. .... Louis, author Dashiell Hammett, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Associate Justice of the...
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Final Home of Heroes: Arlington National Cemetery  May 29, 2005 ... Here lies General of the Armies John J. Pershing, commander of all U.S. forces ... man who could have chosen burial under one of Arlington's hundreds of grand ... on a rolling field of the simple white markers of soldiers from his great war .... A little to the west is the grave of JFK's brother, Robert F. Kennedy,...
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Robert Edwin Peary, Rear Admiral, United States Navy - Arlington ...  Then along came Robert E. Peary, a civil engineer with a burning desire to ... In 1988 his body was moved to Arlington National Cemetery and buried near...
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Patrick Henry : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History ...  Giving ... A symbol of America's struggle for liberty and self-government, Patrick Henry was a lawyer, patriot, orator, ... He played a prominent role in the fifth Virginia convention, which convened on May 6, 1776, and on June 29 was elected the first ... He died in 1799 at his home on Red Hill Plantation in Campbell County.
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Army of Tennessee Tumulus and Pierre Gustave Toutant ...  The General and his steed crown the Benevolent Association, Army of Tennessee, Louisiana Division tumulus in Metairie Cemetery. ... The most famous person buried in the tumulus is General Beauregard (see ... He is also known as the man who standardized the Confederate Battle Flag and made it the most popular...
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Arlington House - Arlington National Cemetery  Oct 7, 2015 ... George Washington Parke Custis and his wife, Mary Lee Fitzhugh ... in Arlington House for the rest of their lives and were buried together ... in reality the confiscation of the property was a military necessity. ... General of the U.S. Army, appropriated the grounds June 15, 1864, for use as a military cemetery.
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Marion E. Carl, Lieutenant General, United States Marine Corps  It was followed by an honor guard of about 100 soldiers in blue-and-white dress uniforms. ... "The fact that my dad got to be 82, I think, is a remarkable piece of luck and skill. ... ROSEBURG, Oregon -- Retired Major General Marion Carl, a World War II ... 25, 1947, at Muroc Field, now Edwards Air Force Base, in California.
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Richard E. Byrd - Wikipedia  Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (October 25, 1888  March 11, 1957) was an .... On May 9, 1926, Byrd and Navy Chief Aviation Pilot Floyd Bennett attempted a flight over the North Pole in a Fokker F.VIIa/3m Tri-motor monoplane named Josephine Ford, after the daughter of Ford Motor Company president Edsel...
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Medgar Evers - Black History - HISTORY.com  On June 12, 1963 at 12:40 a.m., Evers was shot in the back in the driveway of his home ... Born in Mississippi, he served in World War II before going to work for the ... visible civil rights leader in the state, and he was shot to death in June 1963. ... Evers was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery, and...
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Richard E. Byrd - Wikipedia  Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (October 25, 1888  March 11, 1957) was an .... As a result, he employed aircraft in all of his future expeditions. ... In 1958, Norwegian-American aviator and explorer Bernt Balchen cast doubt on ... been members of the first expedition to reach the South Pole in December 1911.
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Byrd, Richard E. (18881957) - Encyclopedia Virginia  Richard E. Byrd was a naval aviator and explorer of both the Arctic and ... Byrd's desire to test navigational equipment in extreme climates took him to ... claimed that he could not have made the trip in such a short amount of time. ... magnetic, and geographical information, including the possible discovery of new territory.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis - Arlington National Cemetery  It didn't matter, anymore, that her name had become the awkward, at first ... near a red-gold sliver of flame, beside the husband with whom she helped create a ... way most of us saw her burial in Arlington Cemetery next to President John F. Kennedy .... Moreover, her brother-in-law, Robert Kennedy, had been assassinated...
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President William Howard Taft - Arlington National Cemetery  He retired from the Court on February 3, 1930, due to ill health, and died five ...... 6 that Chief Justice Taft had been forced to suspend his work in the Supreme Court ... 3, a few hours after his resignation as Chief Justice was announced, he was ... Extensive military honors were scheduled after President Hoover on 8 March...
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The Truth Behind the Bataan Death March - Ann Seymour's blog  Jul 11, 2009 ... Here is what I know about the events that led to the horriffic Bataan Death ... He called his Chief of Staff, Richard Sutherland, and a few key ... Dugout Doug MacArthur lies ashaking on the rock ... describing himself as The Lion of Luzon and going in everywhere. ... On WW II there was a 50-year freeze.
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Jeopary Questions page 1167 - CATCH & CARRY - TriviaBistro.com  VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE: Once a VMI science & artillery professor, this famous Confederate general is buried near the campus  HISTORY: This Holy...