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2 unusual facts about Carl Ben Eielson


Carl Ben Eielson

After the war, he enrolled at Georgetown Law School (now Georgetown University) in Washington, D.C. Working part-time as a police officer at the Capitol, he met the Alaska Territory's delegate to the Congress, Daniel Sutherland, who persuaded Ben to go to Alaska to teach secondary school.

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Eielson died alongside his mechanic Earl Borland in an air crash on November 9, 1929, in Siberia while attempting to evacuate furs and personnel from the Nanuk, a cargo vessel trapped in the ice at North Cape (Mys Schmidt on today's maps).



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