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Submitted URL: http://gcmap.com/
Effective URL: http://www.gcmap.com/
Submission: On June 10 via api from GB — Scanned from GB

Form analysis 6 forms found in the DOM

Name: dash — GET /cgi-bin/gc2q

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Every page on the Great Circle Mapper has a text-entry box at the top with a
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 Featured Map: Throwback Thursday: Pan Am's First Around-the-World Flight


6 January 2022 – Permalink – Archives of Featured Maps






80 year ago, a Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat named California Clipper
(registered NC-18602 and subsequently renamed Pacific Clipper) completed Pan
Am's first around-the-world flight. It had not been planned that way.

The trip had started on 2 December 1941 as PA 6039, a scheduled passenger flight
from Pan Am's San Francisco base on Treasure Island to Auckland, New Zealand,
with five scheduled stops along the way:

 * San Pedro, California
 * Honolulu, Hawaii
 * Canton Island
 * Suva, Fiji
 * Nouméa, New Caledonia

Upon reaching Auckland, the aircraft was intended to return to San Francisco as
PA 6040, but two hours after departing Nouméa radioman Eugene Leach heard a
radio report of the Japanese attack on Peark Harbor. Tuning to the long-range
signal from Pan Am's ground station in Nouméa they picked up a repeating message
via Morse Code:

> PEARL HARBOUR ATTACKED. IMPLEMENT PLAN A.

Captain Robert Ford secretly had a sealed envelope outlining Plan A: continue to
the nearest safe Pan American base, avoiding enemy forces. That meant continuing
on to Auckland. The crew spent a week in Auckland before receiving new orders:

> Normal return route cancelled. Proceed as follows:
> 
> Strip all company markings, registration numbers, and indentifiable insignia
> from exterior surfaces. Proceed westbound soonest your discretion to avoid
> hostilities and deliver NC18602 to Marine Terminal LaGuardia Field New York.
> 
> Good Luck

The crew had no charts for areas west of Auckland and had to develop a plan with
the help of the Auckland library. They first returned to Nouméa to evacuate 22
Pan Am employees, women, and children, and take them to Gladstone, Australia.
From there, they flew via nine intermediate stops, under radio silence and with
assorted threats along the way, before reaching New York before dawn on 6
January 1942.

Today's Featured Map illustrates the stops along trip, with the scheduled
operation of PA 6039 in Pan Am blue (except for the final leg from Nouméa to
Auckland) and the epic westward journey home in red.

Considerably more detail can be found in the references.



References and additional information:

 * The Pan Am Historical Foundation
   * Saga of the Pacific Clipper
   * Photos: Pan Am's Boeing 314 California Clipper heads for Auckland
 * This Plane Accidentally Flew Around the World – John Bull (2 April 2018)
 * How Pearl Harbor forced the world's first around-the-world commercial
   flight – The Washington Post (7 December 2021)
 * At this time in 1941, a Clipper plane was trying to get home the hard way —
   flying around the world! – NavyTimes (21 December 2018)
 * Model 314 Clipper Flying Boat – Boeing
 * Boeing B-314 – The Pan Am Clippers





 

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