The Philippine Clipper, one of Pan Am's M-130s, brought some of America's first reports of the war front back from Wake Island
Image from page 14 of brochure entitled "The First 50 Years of Pan Am" summarizing the airline's history and services. Summary of accompanying text: The Philippine Clipper, a Martin M-130 flying boat, was gunned down by the Japanese on Wake Island shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor but managed to make a heroic escape back to San Francisco to report some of the nation's first accounts of the war in the Pacific.