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Medal of Honor Recipient

Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr.

U.S. Navy · Interim 1920 - 1940

MOH-RC-002801Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: Navy star design with the 1913 blue ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorAction-era reference: 1926

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Presentation date is not usable for design selection. This is an action-era reference; a later presentation or replacement medal may differ. The Navy used more than one design in this period. No Tiffany Cross attribution is inferred from service or conflict alone.

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Medal of Honor

May 9, 1926

Spitsbergen, Norway

Rank at action
Commander
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Interim 1920 - 1940
Unit or command
Byrd Arctic Expedition

The Citation

Sources ↓
For distinguishing himself conspicuously by courage and intrepidity at the risk of his life, in demonstrating that it is possible for aircraft to travel in continuous flight from a now inhabited portion of the earth over the North Pole and return.

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. — Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-09-01

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002815
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-09-01
Accredited to
Virginia
Archive transcription SHA-256
a16b12c1a8f57a248a314b92214b6bff47486e617454e847ac5d5cdcc38f23de

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile comparison is documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

Current official reference profile confirms identity and core action metadata; legacy citation and source-row provenance are retained; General Order comparison remains pending.

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