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October 11: Conqueror of “Land, Sea, Ice, and Air” Also Conquers Connecticut

  In the 1920s and 1930s, few real-life figures captured the American imagination like Richard E. Byrd.  At a time when long-distance aviation was viewed with the same awe as a modern day mission to mars and the earth’s polar regions perceived as as desolate and dangerous as a lunar landscape,  the dashing Navy hero…

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