Richard E. Byrd the rank of captain. After a further summer of exploration, the expedition returned to North America on June 18, 1930. A 19-year-old American Boy Scout, Paul Allman Siple, was chosen to accompany the expedition. Unlike the 1926 flight, this expedition was honored with the gold medal of the American Geographical Society. This was also seen in the film "With Byrd at the South Pole" (1930) which covered his trip there. Byrd, by then an internationally recognized, pioneering American polar explorer and aviator, served for a time as Honorary National President (1931–1935) of Pi Gamma Mu, the international honor society in
Charles Lindbergh that it was almost always awarded for heroism in combat. It was presented to Lindbergh by President Coolidge at the White House on . Other noncombat awards of the Medal of Honor were made to naval aviators [[Richard E. Byrd]] and [[Floyd Bennett]], as well as arctic explorer [[Adolphus W. Greely]]. Lindbergh was honored as the first [[Time (magazine)|"Time"]] magazine [[Time Magazine Person of the Year|"Man of the Year"]] when he appeared on that magazine's cover at age 25 , 1928; he remains the youngest Man of the Year ever. The winner of the 1930 Best Woman Aviator of the