1. In October 1917, Harold June was transferred with Vanderbilt to the Block Island, Rhode Island submarine chaser station and was placed in charge of repairs.
10 Facts About Harold June
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In May 1918 Harold June transferred to the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, Rhode Island as senior inspector in charge of repairs and new work for vessels built for the US Navy.
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Harold June re-enlisted in the Navy in 1920 and served as an instructor of aviation mechanics.
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On November 29,1930, exactly one year after his historic flight over the South Pole, June was decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross by Secretary of the Navy Charles F Adams.
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Harold June was selected to serve as chief pilot on Admiral Byrd's second Antarctic expedition from 1933 to 1935.
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From September 27 to October 20,1934 Harold June led four men on an exploration mission in a snow tractor which discovered a large plateau in the Edsel Ford Range with an elevation of 2,160 feet.
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Harold June stopped in New Zealand on his return to the United States in April 1935 and reported that the 2nd Byrd Expedition had surveyed more of Antarctica than any expedition since the Scott expeditions.
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Harold June was promoted to the warrant officer rank of machinist on 21 March 1942 and was commissioned as a lieutenant on 4 May 1943.
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Harold June lived the rest of his life in his home state of Connecticut and died in Windsor, Connecticut in 1962.
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The Ford Trimotor plane co-piloted by Harold June over the South Pole, named the Floyd Bennett after the pilot of Byrd's North Pole flight in 1926, was returned to its donors, the Ford Motor Company, and preserved at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.