Carl Ben Eielson

Carl Benjamin Eielson (1897 - 1929) is a Aviateur and a American Explorateur.

It was born in Hatton in the Dakota-of-North from Norwegian immigrants. He enlisted and learned how to fly in the U.S. Army Air Service in 1917, creates after the entry in war of the United States. In January 1918, it was integrated in the lately created section of aviation of U.S. Army Signal Body but the First War finished before the end of its formation. Thereafter, he worked in Alaska as pilot carrying out several first in airmail.

He is known to have carried out the first flight transarctic with the Australian exploratror George Hubert Wilkins in April 1928, discovering laors many unknown islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipel. After this exploit, he was asked to him of crére Alaska Airways, a subsidiary company of Aviation Corporation off America. He died in the crash landing of his plane on November 9th, 1929 in Siberia while trying to assist from the 15 paasagers from Nanuk , a cargo liner taken in the ices with the Northern course (known maintaining under the name of Mys Schmidt).

A base of the US Air Force in Alaska, the Eielson Air Force Bases, a Liberty ship, the S Carl B. Eielson and a mount of the Endicott Mountains in Alaska was named in its honor.

References

Dorothy G. Page, Whodunnit Pile: The Carl Ben Eielson Story . Vero Media, Moorhead, Minnesota. 1992. ISBN 0-8134-2936-6
Erling Rolfsrud, Brother to the Eagle , Alexandria, Minnesota 1952

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