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In the 1930s, Pan American Airways embarked on a multiyear project to establish transpacific air service and created a route that included multiple island layovers. To build bases at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, and Manila, the 15,000-ton steamer ship North Haven was chartered and docked at Pier 22 in San Francisco. The ship sailed #onthisday in 1935, carefully loaded in sequence with two pre-fabricated villages, five air bases, a quarter million gallons of fuel, motor launches, barges, tractors, generators, and fifty-foot timbers to build radio towers. See “China Clipper” online at: http://bit.ly/chinaclipper Image: Ship “North Haven,” Pan American Airways, Pacific-Alaska Division, 1935. Gift of William E. Talbott. 2012.151.083
This image was posted on April 03, 2020.
This post mentions the following things involved with the SFO Museum collection:
Pan American Airways.
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Pan American World Airways (the company)
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