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    Pan Am at War: How the Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War II
    Pan Am at War: How the Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War II
    Pan Am at War: How the Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War II
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    Pan Am at War: How the Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War II

    Written by Mark Cotta Vaz and John H. Hill

    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

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    Pan Am at War chronicles 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. They detail the airline's role in building air bases in Latin America and countering Axis interests that threatened the Panama Canal; 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; and more.

    Filled with larger-than-life characters, and revelations of the vision and technology it took to dominate the skies, Pan Am at War provides a gripping unknown history of the American Century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateMar 21, 2019
    ISBN9781684570041

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    • 3/5
      Not all that good a book. Parts of it were well done, like setting up the air routes and Pacific bases, but there was a lot of discussion of corporate maneuvering and who owned how much of such and such a company. And sadly there just wasn't a lot about the actually flying. There was some, but the book doesn't really look at the early seaplanes in any detail. Also there are a significant number of quoted passages from the Pan Am official history that didn't really add much to the book. It's not a bad book by any means, but I found it uninspiring.