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
description: 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.
creator: Pan American World Airways, Inc.
date: 1977?
type: Still Image
coverage: 1970-1979