Clipper, April 26, 1945

              ATLANTIC DIVISION
Read on four continents and four islands in between
$37,075 1st Week of 7th War Loan Drive
The first week of the 7th War Loan Drive ended on April 16th with a total of $37,075 in War Bonds or 29.66% of our quota of a $125,000 medium bomber attained. Two Maintenance Shops, Accessory and Line Crew and the Operations Manager’s Office crashed through with 100% returns. The Federal Credit Union broke all records with their puchase of $20,000 in bonds. The detailed report follows:
Department	Amount
Accounting		 no report
Airways		 $ 350.00
Communications		 625.00
Executive		 no report
Blight Operations		 3,100.00
Ground Operations		 875.00
Industrial Relations			 400.00
Maintenance		 7,575.00
Medical	100.00
Meteorology		 no report
Oper. Mgr. Office		 875.00
Public Relations		 no report
Stores	.... 2,075.00
Purchasing		 no report
Traffic		 1,100.00
Foreign Stations		 no report $17,075.00
Credit Union 			 20,000.00 $37,075.00
OUR NEW MASTHEAD
The usual red in the masthead is absent from this and following issues in a System move for standardization of all Division news publications. However, the character of the paper will not otherwise be changed and we trust that its attraction to you will not be lessened by this move.
It is boring to repeat, but again we say that this is your paper and we request your contributions and suggestions. If you don’t see what you want, ask for it — or send it in.
13/320 Transocean Crossings
Flight crews of Pan American World Airways completed 13,320 transoceanic crossings for the military and on its own commercial routes in the period from the day of the savage Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, through February 28, 1945.
Only actual flights across an ocean are included in this total, which comprises crossings made in contract operations for the Air Transport Command of the United States Army Air Forces and the Naval Air Transport Service, special missions and flights over transocean airways pioneered by Pan American in both the Atlantic and Pacific areas.
Of the 13,320 crossings, 6,531 were made for the ATC; 4,098 were for NATS. In 1944 alone, Pan American flight crews completed a total of 6,240 crossings.
Jack Reid Reports on CNAC Brigade
Dear Editor:
We now have some several ex-Atlantic Division employes (we prefer to think of ourselves as transferees”) who have made the twelve thousand mile grind and can now qualify for the Bucket Seat Brigade. Let’s see, there’s Gene McHale of Fish Lake, Lagos, Belem and Botwood. He’s stationed on the China side and is frequently heard to remark, “China doesn’t bother me . . . bother me . . . bother me . . .” and then starts mumbling something about the Passenger Service Girls at North Beach, following which he beats himself over the head with an empty old Scotch bottle until fast asleep. Otherwise, he likes it fine.
The writer (Fish Lake, Bermuda, Botwood, and dreams of a Europeon Cargo Supervisor’s job) arrived just four months ago at Calcutta with a record player under one arm, twenty records under the other, and three (I must confess) Pan Am overnight bags slung over one shoulder. The balance of his baggage was finally dug out of the floor of the plane where it had been stowed under twenty cases of ammunition. I spent the first three days in Calcutta trying to get my shaving cream and toothpaste back in the tubes. Try it, sometime.
We rushed around and joined all the din-
Jack Reid, Cargo Supervisor, used to be at Fish Lake, Bermuda and Botwood. He’s now connected with CISAC and in the following letter recounts some of his experiences. Let’s start deluging Jack with some of the letters he ‘‘longs for” starting right now. On our part, we’re looking forward to hearing more from Jack.
ner, swimming and golf clubs just in time to celebrate our transfers to these desolate upline stations. (We couldn’t get our membership fees refunded and were forced to settle for whatever silverware we could pocket.) I am sure that most of my old buddies can well imagine how it goes against the grain of a good Traffic man to have to reveal that he is now in Operations! Sest lay gurry, as they say in international circles.
A month or so after the arrival of the first contingent, which consisted of Reid and McHale, came two legitimate Operations men, Warren Lovejoy (Botwood and North Beach) and Ray Meader (Shediac and North Beach). Warren swept in and took supreme command of the Motor Pool (which at the time was being competently operated by a native). Ray assumed the imposing title of Director (Continued on Page 2)
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Nick Holt 10-yr. Man;
36 are 5 and 3 years
Flight Engineer Henry R. Holt, “Nick” to NBAer’s, is our Ten -Year -Pin- Man-of-the-Month. Nick celebrated ten years with Pan American on April 20.
Nick’s career began in April, 1935, as Mechanic, 2nd Class, at Miami. In 1936 he was made flight mechanic. ieer officer in 1939 and in the general personnel transfer to North Beach in 1940, Nick came along in the same capacity. He was made a Flight Engineer in
1941.
Nick was a member of the crew which flew Queen Wilhelmina to the British Isles on July 4, 1943. In November, 1943, he was a member of the crew which made the first survey flight to Leopoldville, Belgian Congo.
Blanche Freeman of Traffic is also a “special” this month. Blanche has served three years with Pan American with the enviable record of never having been absent.
Edwin F. McCarthy, local employe at Foynes who has been with PAA since the first flight arrived in Foynes in October, 1939, under Captain Gray, was not cited at the time of his Fifth Anniversary with the company. We congratulate “Ed”—though a bit late.
The following employes of the Atlantic Division are eligible for five and three-year Gold Emblems for the month of April.
5-Year Pin
Stores & Purchasing	Operations
Matthew Hogan	Mary McGoldrick
Catherine Ricciardella
Traffic
Maintenance	james £ McGuinness
Dock Richard Lee
Ora McKenna	Communications
Anthony Marchese	Dorothy Miller
Lena M. Reynolds
Executive Rosamond Lotito
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That meal which you eat so unconcernedly in the cafeteria each day has 6 hours of work by some 37 employes behind it. This is exclusive of the problems of rationing — probably 600 times your own family’s problem—of short supplies and of all the other problems involved with food today.
After Passenger Service Manager Bert Snowden, Commissary Supt. Bruno Candotti, and the Cafeteria Supervisor have solved these initial problems, there remains the job of getting the food prepared, cooked and served. That story is told in pictures on Page 3.