Pan Am At War How The Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War Ii Mark Cotta Vaz by Mark Cotta Vaz 9781510729513, 1510729518 instant download after payment.

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:
• 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.
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.