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| Keywords: Historic weather balloon "Explorer II." Lake Andes NWR, South Dakota. - NARA - 283835.tif Scope and content This National Geographic Society-Army Air Corps balloon set a world manned altitude record of 72 395 ft on Nov 11 1935 The pictures show various views of the gondola on the ground CCC personnel Army and National Geographic Society personnel and the balloon being folded into a ground cloth General notes 283835 Local identifier Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Minneapolis Regional Office 1940 - 1970 NARA's Central Plains Region Kansas City NREA 400 West Pershing Road Kansas City MO 64108 1935 Record group Record Group 22 Records of the U S Fish and Wildlife Service 1868 - 2008 Record group ARC 351 Civilian Conservation Corps CCC Camp Project Reports compiled 07/1935 - 04/1942 Series ARC 1803514 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRE-22-MRO-1793 yes Other versions <gallery> File Historic_weather_balloon_ Explorer_II _Lake_Andes_NWR _South_Dakota _-_NARA_-_283835 tif tif File Historic_weather_balloon_ Explorer_II _Lake_Andes_NWR _South_Dakota _-_NARA_-_283835 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs South Dakota Explorer II Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge South Dakota in the 1930s Black and white photographs of South Dakota | ||||