Africa Orient Division of Pan American World Airways, crew of 5,000th Atlantic crossing

Africa Orient Division of Pan American World Airways, crew of 5,000th Atlantic crossing

Pan Am caption: "PAA CREW THAT FLEW TRANSPORT ON FIVE THOUSANDTH CROSSING OF ATLANTIC: Miami, Fla. - Here's the crew that flew a giant transport from Casablanca to Miami to chalk up the 5,000th Atlantic crossing by the Africa-Orient Division of the Pan American World Airways for the Air Transport Command. Reading up from the bottom, they are: Capt. R. A. Holman, pilot, of Lodi, Calif.; co-pilot Kenneth G. Brosdal, of Duluth, Minn.; Robert C. Simmons, navigator, Miami Beach, Fla.; John A. Grimshaw, flight engineer, Glenalden, Pa.; and A. E. Deese, radio operator, Miami, Fla."

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1940-1950

University of Miami Libraries. Special Collections., Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records, ASM0341. Accession 1; Box No. 258; Folder No. 3; Folder Title: History World War II, Africa Orient Division. http://merrick.library.miami.edu:80/cdm/ref/collection/exhibits/id/358