ERA | WORLD WAR TWO
B-314 Memories, Part 2 by Ed Dover, takes us to Ed's life after World War Two and his interesting career in aviation radio beyond Pan Am.
Air Mail & Pan Am History: China Clipper Endnote, a cover from Ken Sanford's impressive collection of stamps, courtesy of Jon Krupnick. Read the PDF.
NYC's 1965 Landmarks Preservation Law preserved the Interior at the MAT, LaGuardia with its Art Deco Design and stunning WPA Mural by James Brooks.
1937, Glenn Martin’s Birds of a Feather, Two Branches of the Family Tree: “Russian Clipper" & the “Tadpole Clipper" at the Martin Company in MD.
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.
After the Pearl Harbor attack, Churchill sailed to Washington DC to meet with FDR, but flew home on the B-314 Clipper Berwick due to safety concerns.
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.
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.
The day Geo. E. Warren III watched the last B-314 in 'Warpaint' and its final landing and take off in Miami with his dad, a PAA flying boat mechanic.
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.
Loading the China Clipper in 1943: An Excerpt from Morten Beyer's book about Pan American World Airways' China Clipper cargo, "Flying Higher" (2010).
Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia, still in operation, was New York's first true airport where Pan Am's Clipper ships flew.
Ed Dover's adventures as a radio officer on Pan Am's B-314 flying boats in 1943 over the Pacific and one fateful day for the Philippine Clipper.
War Claims a Clipper: Six hours after the Pearl Harbor attack, at Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, December 8, 1941: 6:50 a.m., local time (Dec. 7, 1941, 12:20 p.m.)
July 12, 1940, a B-314 mail survey flightwith Capt."Pop" Tilton commanding, flew from San Francisco to New Zealand via Canton & Noumea.
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.
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.
Engaging accounts by Ed Dover, former Pan Am Flight Radio Officer & author of "The Long Way Home," on his career with Pan Am, and a video about his life.
"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.
"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."
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."
A look at Pan Am-Africa during WW2. Later the United Nations would use airfields built by Pan Am for humanitarian purposes in Sudan.
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.
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.
