Talk:Bernt Balchen

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POV?

Removed the following:

(Balchen never brought the North Pole fraud up in public before his autobiography was published in 1958, upon which the Byrd family promptly had the pertinent part of the book censored.†)

(† Ever since the days of the expedition, The Byrds sabotaged any attempt by Balchen and others to make known these findings, which they stated were groundless allegations. Byrd intimidated Balchen on several occasions, and stopped his promotion to General of the U.S. Air Force.)

Without substantiation, this sounds like conspiracy theory. I've tried to make the remaining language more neutral. JHCC (talk) 17:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Photo

Even here at 150 pixels it is showing aliasing on the sleeve. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 17:24, 11 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a reason you keep switching to the lowest resolution image, with the aliasing effect? --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 19:27, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Some editor bent on removing the other image has left no recourse, and since the original image had no copyright issues, it was substituted for the time being. See if you can get the better image documented, it certainly is a better looking photograph. FWIW Bzuk (talk) 19:35, 20 January 2008 (UTC).[reply]