Clipper, May 24, 1945

              MAY 24, 1945
ATLANTIC DIVISION Greater New York Fund Drive Opened May 15
The annual Greater New York Fund Drive was launched at NBA on May 15. Paul Wol-lam, Ground Service Supervisor, was appointed Chairman.
The following coordinators, who will have the job of soliciting funds from members of their department or shop, were announced: Accounting — A1 Munro Airways — Jeannette Johnson Communications — Mary Athey Executive — Tom Brown Flight Operations — P. J. Smith Ground Operations — Jim Hyde Industrial Relations — Barbara Morris Maintenance — Bert Pelissier Medical — Margaret Maclntire Meteorology — Vicky Guinan Oper. Mgr. Office — Ann Cosmick Public Relations — Catherine Shea Stores — June Bollin Purchasing — Tom Bartlett Traffic — Hal Voeth
By Pat Shaw
On Decoration Day the A&S Club is sponsoring a field day event for the children of Pan American employes from the ages of 4-14. The program will begin at 10:30 a. m. and will include competitions of all kinds — relay races, potato races, three-legged races, and many other events planned by George Updike and his able committee.
While there is no age limit on the children, those under four will not participate in the races. They will have their own carnival and should come dressed in costume. Prizes will he given for the best looking costume.
The parents are of course invited and may even take part in some of the special races, if they feel so inclined. Ice cream and cookies will be served to the children.
Read on four continents and four islands in between
WAR JOB BY DIVISION REVEALED
AS RESTRICTIONS ARE EASED
YERXA NAMED MANAGER
Pan American World Airways announced the appointment of John E. Yerxa as Regional Manager for the New England area, with headquarters at Boston.
Mr. Yerxa recently completed three years’ active duty in the Air Transport Command of the IJ. S. Army Air Corps, attaining the rank of Ft. Colonel. Prior to entering the service. Mr. Yerxa was, for several years, president of the Boston Stock Exchange. He is a graduate of Harvard College.
Mr. Yerxa’s appointment is the second Regional Manager to have been appointed within the U. S., the previous one being J G. Ehrlicher who operates out of Chicago.
Honeymooners First To
Take Vacation Trip
Honeymooners, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moore, and Ned Peck of Communications were the first vacationing employe passengers aboard when the Clipper took off last Wednesday, the second day of summer service., Ned, Bob, a Flight Engineer, and his bride, Corinne, whom he married two days previously, were the first persons to take advantage of the new vacation policy which provided free transportation via Clipper to Shediac.
One hundred and twenty-five persons requested reservations the first day the Airport Ticket Counter accepted applications. As noted in the picture, first in line bright and early Monday morning was John Crawford of inspection. John arrived at 7:30 a. m. and by 8:30 the line had swelled to about thirty persons when Ann Barrett and George Wilson started processing the applications.
On Tuesday, applications fell to 24. According to Hal Votli of Traffic, the greatest volume of applications was for over week-ends and Hal suggested mid-week' as the best time to apply for passage.
July 1 has proven most in demand to date, applications far beyond facilities having been made. Other dates which are filled are June 10 and 22, July 1 and 22 and August 19.
If you’re male and planning to take advantage of the vacation trips to Shediac by Clipper, and you’re between the ages of 18 and 38, you’re required to notify your draft board of your intended departure from the U. S. Also, you must secure Selective Service Permit (Form 351) for presentation at point of departure.
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When the Dixie Clipper took off Tuesday of last week for Europe on the 1,715th Atlantic crossing by Pan American since Pearl Harbor it was the first publicly announced transatlantic flight since this country entered the war and initiated northern route flights to Foynes, Eire, for the fourth successive summer since Pearl Harbor.
With the publication of Clipper arrival and departure times starting May 15, and the extension of priority passage to certain businessmen, the Atlantic Division also is able to reveal the war job it has done since Dec. 7, 1941, when “Plan A” went into operation as a prearranged coded message was flashed to all Clippers within half an hour of word of the attack on Pearl Harbor. This does not in-cliivde similar activities by PAA’s other divisions.
This war job to date has included the following:
1.	Clipper transportation for approximately 61,000 vital war passengers in flights of more than 7,400,000 miles. In addition, the Clippers carried 7,000,000 pounds of mail — much of it V-mail, and nearly 2,000,000 pounds of high-priority cargo to Europe and Africa.
2.	Flying converted Consolidated Coronado patrol bombers for the Naval Air Transport Service, the transatlantic division carried over 4,000,000 pounds of Navy and Army material, much of it necessary to the European invasion, bringing back wounded servicemen on return trips. (Since the first of this year a similar transport service for the Army’s Air Transport Command has replaced the NATS service, with a fleet of Douglas Skymasters (C-54s) being operated on the Casablanca run. Figures on this operation are restricted.)
3.	Provided the core of the Navy’s Flight Engineer training program with a PAA-oper-ated school at LaGuardia Field which when it closes its doors this August will have trained 1,400 flight mechanics for duty on the Navy’s flying boats, including the giant 70-ton Mars.
4.	Provided training courses in a hitherto secret weapon in the “War of the Atlantic” — identification of Nazi submarines, ships and planes. This Recognition School trained pilots of unarmed commercial ships to assist their fellow military pilots to detect, report, and thus destroy the enemy. Details of the usefulness of the training and number of enemy ships or planes sent to their doom have not yet been revealed.
5.	Probably of most direct importance to the war were the 99 Special Missions which the Clippers conducted far from their accustomed routes for the armed forces. In two years the Clippers flew 2,200,000 miles on such missions.. The Dixie itself carried out one of the most
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