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Carl Benjamin "Ben" Eielson (July 20, 1897 – November 9, 1929) was an American aviator, bush pilot and explorer. Eielson Air Force 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 School Eielson AFB, AK are named in his honor. [1][2] In ...
It was named for Carl Ben Eielson, an Alaska aviation pioneer who was killed, along with his mechanic Earl Borland, in the crash of their Hamilton H-45 aircraft in 1929. Eielson and Borland were attempting a rescue flight to an icebound ship in the Bering Sea when they were killed. On 1 April 1948, the Eielson Air Force Base Wing (Base ...
NRHP reference No. 77001031 [1] Added to NRHP. April 11, 1977. 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 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1] It is an "outstanding" Queen Anne house but is most significant ...
The result: the inaugural Scandinavian-American Hall of Fame Banquet, held Oct. 19, 1984, and highlighted by the inductions of Sondre Norheim, the father of modern skiing; Casper Oimoen, a champion skier who 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 ...
Mount Eielson is a 5,802 ft (1,770 m) summit located in the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park and Preserve, in Alaska, United States. [ 3] It is situated immediately east of the Muldrow Glacier terminus, 3.5 mi (6 km) south of Eielson Visitor Center, and 3.9 mi (6 km) north of Red Mountain, its nearest higher neighbor.
Grand Forks Public Schools. Grand Forks Public Schools (GFPS) is a system of K-12 schools in Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States. GFPS comprises two school districts: the Grand Forks School District and the Grand Forks Air Force Base School District. There are twelve elementary schools, four middle schools, and two high schools.
During another flight on November 9, 1929 to supply the crew and to salvage more of the valuable cargo, pilot Carl Ben Eielson and mechanic Frank Borland went missing in a storm 60 miles from Cape Schmidt [21] and were found dead after a weeks-long search operation - they had crashed.
1928: Carl Ben Eielson–Hubert Wilkins Arctic Ocean crossing; 1928: The airship Italia (Umberto Nobile); airship crashed, but Nobile was rescued; 1928: Roald Amundsen disappears in the Arctic aboard a Latham 47 while searching for Nobile; 1928: Marion expedition to Davis Strait and Baffin Bay