Pan Am at War: How the Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War II
Autor Mark Cotta Vaz, John H Hillen Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 feb 2019
Pan Am at Warchronicles the airline's historic role in advancing aviation and serving America's national interest before and during World War II. From its inception, Pan American Airways operated as the "wings of democracy," spanning six continents and placing the country at the leading edge of international aviation.
At the same time, it was clandestinely helping to fight America's wars.
Utilizing government documents, declassified Freedom of Information Act material, and company documents, the authors have uncovered stories of Pan Am's stunning role as an instrument of American might:
- The airline's role in building air bases in Latin America and countering Axis interests that threatened the Panama Canal
- Creating transatlantic and trans-Africa supply lines for sending Lend-Lease equipment to Britain
- Cooperation with Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese nationalist government to pioneer the dangerous "Hump" route over the Himalayas
- The dangerous seventeen-thousand-mile journey that took President Roosevelt to the high-stakes Casablanca Conference with Winston Churchill
- The daring flight that delivered uranium for the atomic bomb.
For anyone interested in aviation, business, or military history, here is astonishing story filled with big ideas and the leaders who made them a reality.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781510729506
ISBN-10: 151072950X
Pagini: 424
Ilustrații: b-w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Skyhorse
Colecția Skyhorse
ISBN-10: 151072950X
Pagini: 424
Ilustrații: b-w photos
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Skyhorse
Colecția Skyhorse
Notă biografică
Mark
Cotta
Vazis
aNew
York
Timesbestselling
author
of
thirty-six
books.
His
award-winning
and
critically
acclaimed
works
includeThe
Invisible
Art(coauthored
with
Craig
Barron),Living
Dangerously,
and
the
Twilight
Saga
movie
companion
series,
all
#1New
York
Timesbestsellers.
Vaz
has
written
for
numerous
periodicals,
includingCinefex,Yoga
Journal,
andWired.
He
lives
in
San
Francisco
Bay
area
in
California.
John H. Hillhas worked in the museum field for more than thirty-five years, first at Laguna Art Museum, and at SFO Museum since 1986. At SFO Museum he curates exhibitions, develops collections on the history of commercial aviation, and oversees the operation of the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library and Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum. Hill also a board member of the Pan Am Historical Foundation. He lives in San Francisco, California.
John H. Hillhas worked in the museum field for more than thirty-five years, first at Laguna Art Museum, and at SFO Museum since 1986. At SFO Museum he curates exhibitions, develops collections on the history of commercial aviation, and oversees the operation of the San Francisco Airport Commission Aviation Library and Louis A. Turpen Aviation Museum. Hill also a board member of the Pan Am Historical Foundation. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Recenzii
"Pan
Am
at
War is
a
fascinating
and
little
known
story
of
how
the
development
of
this
seminal
airline
became
a
huge
asset
for
America
in
WWII.
Pan
Am
went
to
war
right
alongside
B-17s,
B-29s,
Corsairs,
Hellcats.
Aerodynamics,
instrumentation,
routes—Pan
Am
was
there.
Another
great
story
from
the
greatest
generation."
–Tom Brokaw
"In the 1930s and 1940s, Pan American Airways cast air lines across the world’s great oceans, pioneering intercontinental air travel...one of the great technological accomplishments of the twentieth century. At the same time...Pan Am served as a spearpoint of U.S. strategic engagement, projecting American power to every corner of the globe. In their briskly-written and ever-amazing Pan Am at War, authors Mark Cotta Vaz and John H. Hill tell what must surely be the greatest corporate story in American history—how Pan Am’s daring and visionary executives, aviators, and innovators helped win the Second World War."
—Gregory Crouch, author of China's Wings and The Bonanza King
"Pan Am at War is a major contribution to the literature on the history of American aviation. Not only is it a riveting narrative with fascinating characters—the airline's founder, Juan Trippe, is a real-life Jay Gatsby—but the book breaks new ground regarding Pan Am's contribution to Allied victory in World War II."
—Gregg Herken, Emeritus Professor of History, University of California, author of Brotherhood of the Bomb and The Georgetown Set
–Tom Brokaw
"In the 1930s and 1940s, Pan American Airways cast air lines across the world’s great oceans, pioneering intercontinental air travel...one of the great technological accomplishments of the twentieth century. At the same time...Pan Am served as a spearpoint of U.S. strategic engagement, projecting American power to every corner of the globe. In their briskly-written and ever-amazing Pan Am at War, authors Mark Cotta Vaz and John H. Hill tell what must surely be the greatest corporate story in American history—how Pan Am’s daring and visionary executives, aviators, and innovators helped win the Second World War."
—Gregory Crouch, author of China's Wings and The Bonanza King
"Pan Am at War is a major contribution to the literature on the history of American aviation. Not only is it a riveting narrative with fascinating characters—the airline's founder, Juan Trippe, is a real-life Jay Gatsby—but the book breaks new ground regarding Pan Am's contribution to Allied victory in World War II."
—Gregg Herken, Emeritus Professor of History, University of California, author of Brotherhood of the Bomb and The Georgetown Set