ED DOVER STORIES

Ed Dover, former Pan Am Flight Radio Officer and author of "The Long Way Home," has written engaging personal accounts on his career with Pan Am and beyond.

First Time Aloft

It was January 20th, 1943, when Ed received his first assignment as a flight crew member. He was on a Pan Am Boeing 314 flying boat that was forced to turn around and return to Treasure Island in the same storm that took down the M-130 Phillippine Clipper just a short distance from San Francisco.

https://www.panam.org/war-years/ed-dover-first-time-aloft

B-314 Memories Part 1

Pan Am B-314 at Treasure Island San Francisco

Ed's background in radio engineering led to being recruited in the Fall of 1942 by Pan Am. He tells the stories of his service on flying boats in the Pacific, contracted by Naval Air Transport Service during World War Two.

https://www.panam.org/war-years/ed-dover-b-314-memories-pt-1

B-314 Memories Part 2

Post War: In this section, Ed continues his work as a Pan Am Flight Radio Officer, and we pick up at the point where he has been assigned to set up Pan Am’s radio communications at their new base in Austria.

https://www.panam.org/war-years/ed-dover-b-314-memories-pt-2