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Pan Am b- 314 Dixie Clipper during World War Two

Clippers at war blogpic

In 1945 after WW2 ended, Pan American released a new film, “Clippers At War” to publicize the contributions made by the men & women of Pan Am. 

Read more: Film: Clippers At War

Pan Am M130 flyby 1935 2

"When Passengers Were News." Pan Am's flying clipper ships were a lifeline in June 1941, prior to United States' involvement in World War Two.

Read more: When Pax Were News

Martin M 130 cutaway

Engaging accounts by Ed Dover, former Pan Am Flight Radio Officer & author of "The Long Way Home," on his career with Pan Am during World War Two.

Read more: Ed Dover Stories

Wake Island aerial, from the Bonnie Gilbert Collection

Echoes of Wake Island, by Bonnie Gilbert tells the story behind her 2012 book, "Building for War" and the civilian contractors and marines on Wake Is.

Read more: Echoes of Wake Is.

Flying Cloud

Flying Cloud's debut: In Feb.1940 Boeing's famed test pilot Eddie Allen & PAA's Francis Jacobs flew the airline's first B-307 down to Brownsville TX.

Read more: Flying Cloud's Debut

Pan Am Air Ferry blog

Pan Am's Air Ferry Service to Africa in World War 2: August 18 [1941] Pres. Roosevelt announced plans for the world’s most ambitious airways project.

Read more: PAA Air Ferry Service

PAA Cargo Timeline blog

Clipper Cargo background notes: A timeline of the history of Pan American World Airways Cargo operations 1930-1940.

Read more: PAA Cargo Timeline

Pan Am At War by Bob Gandt

Pan American Airways in World War Two by Bob Gandt: A story that began December 7, 1941 with the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Read the PDF.

Read more: Bob Gandt: PAA At War

The Commodore FDR

The Commodore and the President, from John C. Leslie's memoir: Arranging Pres. Roosevelt's daring WW2 flight to Casablanca on B-314 Dixie Clipper.

Read more: The Commodore & FDR

Hong Kong Clipper at Hong Kong Harbor Fall 1941

A "New Horizons" account of the Pan Am's Sikorsky S-42 Hong Kong Clipper II (aka Bermuda Clipper), destroyed at Hong Kong during WW2.

Read more: Hong Kong Clipper

Capt. Eveland (in hat at right) at Dinjan India after refugee flight

Pan Am Capt. I. Wayne Eveland flew the notorious Hump between India and China in World War Two & experienced the 1942 Evacuation of Burma.  PDF.

Read more: Burma Evacuation

Bermuda Genteel Sort of War

As WW2 began in Europe, PAA Pilot Charles Lorber landed his B-314 in Bermuda and British censors & marines removed all mail bound for Germany.

Read more: A Genteel Sort of War

Pan Am Saga Bob Ford

A B-314 in World War 2: "The 'Round The World Saga of the "Pacific Clipper" by John A. Marshall (1999), appeared in "Air and Space Magazine."

Read more: Pacific Clipper Saga

Pan Am Boeing 314 Yerba Buena San Francisco Bay blog

Service Aboard Clippers in Wartime: A few notes on Pan Am's flying boat operations during World War II, from Pan Am Transpacific Newsletter 1942.

Read more: Clipper Service in War

California Clipper Crew blog

July 12, 1940, a B-314 mail survey flightwith Capt."Pop" Tilton commanding, flew from San Francisco to New Zealand via Canton & Noumea.

Read more: Back to Auckland!

Marine Air Terminal, MAT, LaGuardia 1940s

Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia, still in operation, was New York's first true airport where Pan Am's Clipper ships flew.

Read more: The MAT @ LaGuardia

How Americas Airline Went to War, Pan Am Boeing 314 flying boat

"How America's Airline Went To War," by Steve Weintz, about Pan Am during WW2, from War Is Boring, with an original clip from "Clippers At War."

Read more: How PAA Went To War

Morten Beyer Chapter: Loading the China Clipper

Loading the China Clipper: An Excerpt from Morten Beyer's book about Pan American World Airways' China Clipper cargo, "Flying Higher" (2010).

Read more: China Clipper Cargo

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