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[RetiredFAE]

Interesting story about Pan Am and their Clipper in 1941.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v...20yer_embedded

[w4bar]

Here are a couple of links, with
more detail about this remarkable flight.

(http://www.flyingclippers.com/clippersatwar.html)

and

(http://www.radiocom.net/Clipper/)

Bob

[Mike Burdick]

Very interesting!

On a sad note... the Philippine Clipper crashed on the California coast near Booneville after arriving from Honolulu, Hawaii on the morning of January 21, 1943.

http://www.donrjordan.com/clipper.html

[krutch]

All these stories are interesting to me. Thanks for the history.