Northwest History. Aviation 8. Wilkins' Expedition, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1938
• Subjects: Fairbanks; Alaska; Harold Gillam; Point Barrow; George Hubert Wilkins; search expedition; radio; Cape Halkett; Fairbanks-Barrow flight; Master Sergeant Stanley Morgan; snowmobile; Sigismund Levaneffsky; transpolar flight; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Aklavik; Gillam; Pacific; Wilkins; Barrow
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/86127

Supplies Go North To Wilkins' Party. SUPPLIES GO NORTH TO WILKM$' PARTY FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 31. (/P)—Pilot Harold Gillam took off for Barrow at /7:30 a. m. today with a plane load of radio supplies for Sir George Hubert Wilkins' soviet-sponsored search expedition. Gillam was forced- down near Cape Halkett on a previous Fairbanks-Barrow flight, and was rescued by Master Sergeant Stanley Morgan, who made a 12-hour trip from Barrow in his snowmobile. Wilkins has bases at Barrow and Aklavik in his search for Sigismund Levaneffsky and five companions, missing since last August 13 on a transpolar flight.