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Pan Am b- 314 Dixie Clipper during World War Two

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

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

Mighty Design Boeing 314

A Mighty Design: The story of the development and construction of Pan Am's famous Boeing B-314 flying boat, written by Doug Miller. Read the PDF

Read more: Mighty Design: B-314

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

Clipper in Warpaint Boeing 314 blog

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.

Read more: Clipper in "Warpaint"

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

Airmail and History blog

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.

Read more: China Clipper Endnote

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

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

War Claims a 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.)

Read more: War Claims a Clipper

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 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

Treasure Island blog

The building of Treasure Island Terminal and seaplane base in San Francisco Bay, and the Pan Am flying boats that took part in World War Two.

Read more: Treasure Is. Gateway

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.

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!

winstons wild ride blog

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. 

Read more: Winston's Wild Ride

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

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