ERA | PAN AM POST WAR
Pan Am Ops in Gander/2 by Robert Pelley: Taking a close look & shedding light on the history of Gander Airport and its operations in the 1940s & 1950s.
To Europe & Back Non-Stop with Propliners: The Crowning Achievement. In the mid-1950's booming post-war economy air travel was growing fast.
Norman Rockwell's world tour sponsored by Pan Am in 1956, resulted in successful ads with sketches now housed at the Rockwell Museum.
Pan Am's Hawaii, by Pelican Films, shows just how popular travel to Hawaii became, after World War Two when travel expanded across the globe.
Pan Am Ops in Gander/1 by Robert Pelley: Pelley takes a close look, shedding light on the history of Gander Airport and its operations 1940s-1950s.
Maxim's-A Parisian Tradition. Dining on the Pan Am President Special, 1957, restaurant service extending 65,000 miles & embraced 82 lands.
Slides: Pan American World Airways, Post World War II, 1945-1958, and the ascent of large transoceanic piston-powered commercial air transports.
Another Pan Am First: B-377 Stratocruiser Clipper Rainbow (N1025V) sets a record, San Francisco to Washington, DC, March 1949.
Berlin Airlift 1948-1949: West Berlin was a city under siege in the Cold War. Pan Am flew cargo to points in West Germany for transfer of aid to the city.
Ernest Hemingway's personal testimonial about traveling on Pan Am to rediscover Europe, in a colorful 1956 magazine advertisment.
Piston Apogee: Colorful Pan Am posters after WW2 promoted travel to distant destinations on the latest aircraft at that time, Connies & B-377s.
1946: UNRRA needed to continue its airlift service to China & Pan Am got the contract.flying the Great Circle Route saved hours of flight time.
