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To: LindyBill who wrote (102250)2/26/2005 2:46:56 PM
From: MichaelSkyy  Read Replies (1) of 793877
 
In his most spectacular prewar coup, he said Pan Am would fly mail and passengers across the Pacific--8,700 miles of ocean. His colleagues protested the absurdity: their Martin flying boat had a range of only 3,200 miles. Trippe always had an answer. He had quietly exhumed the charts of the old Clipper sailing ships in New York Public Library and spotted a dot barely visible on the biggest maps, an uninhabited bit of coral called Wake Island. Few knew it existed, seven years before it became the scene of American valor. Trippe built bases and hotels on Wake, Midway and Guam, and the brilliant Clipper services to Asia began on Nov. 2, 1935.

The 'neat' stuff you learn here..never knew that..

mike
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