Bill, Eldon Byrd was probably related to the Admiral Richard Byrd branch of the family. Eldon Downs is now an equine & boarding facility near the south fork of the Shanandoah River.
When Admiral Byrd was exploring the artic, his radio communications were only picked up by the home made short wave radio of a young kid Art Colllins built his own radio in his garage, which began his association with the Navy and military, so when WWII came along, his small Cedar Rapids, Iowa radio company got military contracts that continued ...
Byrd's career included co-founding the Civil Air Patrol and funding his explorer cousin, Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who named an Antarctic mountain range after the Colonel.....
In addition, I discovered that in 1933 Rear Admiral Richard Byrd on his second expedition to Antartica used Collins Communication Equipment, in the 1940's Collims began investigating faint radio signals generated by the sun and by other radio waves sources in space.
Operation Highjump commenced in August 1946. It was the largest, most heavily armed naval task force ever sent to Antarctica. Leading the mission was Admiral Richard E Byrd, one of the most famous ...
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David Harold Byrd - Page 3 - JFK Assassination Debate - The Education Forum
"Colonel" D. Harold Byrd has been mentioned in several threads on this forum, both as an owner of 411 Elm St (the former Texas School Book Depository) and as a "founder or co-founder" of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP): Dillard Photo vs. Re-enactment; Mac Wallace fingerprint? in particular Alan Kent's...