Pan Atlantic clipper, February 22, 1945

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W THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1945 Copyright 1944, by Pan American Airways Inc
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This is the new “global” insignia of Pan American World Airways which you may have noted recently appearing on the Clippers and elsewhere around NBA.
Designed to emphasize the world-wide operations of our company, the new company name and insignia were made official several months ago. The service pins will be changed at a later date.
March 1 heralds the opening of the Red Cross 1945 War Fund campaign. The drive will continue throughout the month of March and our goal is the goal of every NBA enterprise —100% participation.
Energetic Bob Hal-lett, Assistant Division Traffic Manager, will be chairman. His leadership, and the efforts of his coordinators representing every shop and office, only be successful, with support from of you, however. To recite the accomplishments of the Red Cross would be an almost impossible task. Last year, for example, 60,000 victims of disaster were aided, and to American and United Nations’ prisoners of war. 10,800,000 food parcels were shipped and additional parcels of clothing and medical simplies were provided. Servicemen and their families, including hospitalized veterans, have felt the helping hand of the Red Cross. More than 700 clubs and rest homes overseas and nearly 200 clubmobiles were maintained, as well as theatres, bathing beaches and canteens.
Help at Home, Too
Since February, 1941, the United States Army and Navy have requested from this agency no less than 11,000,000 pints of blood. It has established blood donor centers in 31 cities of the United States. To promote the war effort on the home frMt, the Red Cross trained over 80,000 volidjjiers for hospital service as nurse’s aidesdietitian’s aides
and, in addition, recruited 15,000 nurses for service in the Army and Navy.
According to Bob Stupp of Personnel, efforts are being made to arrange the showing of a 10 minute March of Time film, highlighting the activities of the Red Cross. We are being asked to contribute $1 each — and remember that $1 may help mean blood plasma for some Joe on either the eastern or western front; cigarettes and food for some American prisoner of war; or it may mean that some returning veteran will learn to live again. So please: Give.
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Last week’s Clipper carried the story and names of Pan American employes who were among those rescued at Santo Tomas in Manila. Many NBAers have asked us how they could contact these old friends and we are happy to have the answer for them in the official statement and address issued last week by General MacArthur’s headquarters on Luzon.
Mail for U. S. civilian internees can be addressed as follows:
Name
American Red Cross Civilian War Affairs Section Sixth Army Headquarters APO 442, c/o Postmaster San Francisco, Calif.
A six cent air mail stamp is required postage,
Meteorology’s Contributions To Transocean Flying Make Aviation History
Pan American’s history of pioneering overocean flying across both the Atlantic and Pacific is entwined with another story — the story of weather. Without favorable weather planes cannot take to the air; and a grounded plane is as useless as an army without ammunition. Or “no good on. earth,” as the phrase goes.
One of our oldest sciences, Meteorology goes back to the early Greeks. However, the first weather map was made in Europe in 1876 and is similar to the one used today by meteorologists all over the world.
To prepare the way for the first survey flights across the two greatest oceans, Pan American dispatched expert meteorologists to Iceland, Labrador, Bermuda and other parts of the world to compile statistics on weather conditions. Their findings made possible overocean flying on a regularly scheduled commercial basis at a time when aviation was still in its infancy.
Today our meteorologists are looking forward to the post-war period when giant land planes will fly to Europe and the Far East on daily schedules. High altitute flying (20,000 feet and higher) presents -certain problems which must be overcome despite the fact that a plane flying that high can often “overfly” the weather.
Here at North Beach our Meteorology Department, headed by Division Meteorologist Allan Clark, has spent a hectic four months predicting the weather in the worst winter on record. They predicted Bowery Bay’s freezing
over and as a result of this and after a series of conferences management decided to use an alternate station for temporary operations.
(See picture story on Page 3.)
Norm neach W eathermen
In addition to the NBA staff of 12, there are other meteorologists at some of our foreign stations.
Forecasts are made from weather maps, four of which are prepared daily by the Meteorology Department. The maps show the position and movement of centers of high and low pressure and movements of cold and warm air masses together with associated weather conditions. This presents to the meteorologist a current picture of the weather over large areas and since weather generally moves from west to east in middle latitudes, he can anticipate future weather conditions approximately 24 hours in advance. This is done by calculating eastward displacement of pressure centers, fronts and air masses.
To prepare a weather map our meteorologists analyze weather conditions throughout the country on information supplied them by the 400 or so weather stations located all over the United States. The stations are connected by teletype circuits and at specific hours of the day and night transmit reports on the weather for use by pilots, meteorologists, navigators and traffic control centers.
Bad weather is generally associated with low pressure and is an indication of trouble ahead. For instance, storms originating at the
Rocky Mountains frequently travel all the way to Europe and have been known to travel all the way around the world. Of course many things can alter the weather suddenly and
RAIN OR SHINE? Four Meteorologists at NBA study a weather map to prepare a forecast for the Dispatch Office. L to R: Asst. Division Meteorologist Ralph Jackman, Division Meteorologist Allan Clark, and Meteorologists Peter Wasko and Bob Decker.
Red Cross Drive To Open March 1