Amory H. "Bud" Waite Collection 1790-1985 1932-1970

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Amory H. "Bud" Waite Collection 1790-1985 1932-1970

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The Amory H. "Bud" Waite Collection consists of documents, artifacts and photographs compiled by Waite during various polar expeditions, both to the Arctic and to Antarctica.

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The Ohio State University. Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program.

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Waite, Amory Hooper, 1902-

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Amory Hooper "Bud" Waite (1902-1985) was a polar explorer who participated in eleven expeditions to Antarctica and twelve expeditions to the Arctic regions from 1933 until 1965. He enlisted in the Navy in 1919, but did not begin his career as an explorer until he served as a radio operator on Admiral Richard E. Byrd's second Antarctic expedition. He had received his first commercial radio license in 1926. Waite gained national attention during this expedition when he, Thomas Poulter, and E.J. De...

Amory H. Bud Waite

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Amory H. "Bud" Waite, Jr. was born near Boston on February 14, 1902 and died in Venice, Florida on January 15, 1985. A radio and electrical engineer, Waite participated in eleven expeditions to the Antarctic and twelve expeditions to the Arctic regions between 1933 and 1965. As a radio operator during the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Waite gained national recognition as one of the three men who rescued Admiral Richard E. Byrd from the Bolling Advanced Base during the Antarctic ...