"Glory to the Soviet pilots who made the heroic flight over the North Pole to America.
For the first time in the history of aviation! Soviet pilots Chkalov, Bydukov and Belyakov. 18-20 June 1937 Domestic ANT-25 aircraft (Tupolev Antonov 25) made a non-stop flight over the North Pole from Moscow to America"
They landed in the Columbia River between Vancouver, WA and Portland, Oregon.
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