Pan American World Airways

Personal Memoirs

This section of the site is devoted to the personal memoirs and recollections of both Pan Am'ers and our friends and passengers. We hope to expand this section over time as individuals contribute their own personal memories, anecdotes and recollections of their experiences with Pan American.

Contents

Creation of the 747
Robert W. Blake

Evolution of an Airplane
John G. Borger

The Pacific Bases
John G. Borger

The Evacuation of Burma
I Wayne Eveland

The Concorde
Capt. Paul Roitsch

Recollections of Dinner Key
Charles M. Dugger

Hawaii, December 1941
W H Gordon, PhD

Crash on The Hump
C.J. Rosbert

China Clipper Radio
John Cook

Pan Am World Services
Thomas J. Flanagan

Afghanistan Before the Russians
Robert Wallace Blake

Final Flight to Freedom: Saigon 1975
Allan H. Topping

The Ditching of The "Sovereign of the Skies"
John Marshall

For others interested in submitting items for this section, we have established a special email address "memoirs@panam.org" to which you can send email. Items may be submitted in ASCII text or in "Word for Windows" formats, preferably as an attachment to your message. Please understand that this site is maintained on a time-available basis and that, due to our workload, there may be delays in publishing items submitted. We regret any delays and we hope you understand.

As the site owner, information systems technology retains the sole right to determine if submissions are suitable for this forum. Items submitted may be edited for space or to correct typographical and gramatical errors. While we will make our best efforts to manage submissions, information systems technology is not responsible for the content of submissions, legal, historical, or otherwise.

All items must include a statement specifically granting us the right to publish the item. Any material which has been published in any other form should include permissions to reprint from both the author and, if possible, the original publication.