(3:36 min.) (09 of 28) 9. WWII in North Africa
George worked his way across North Africa. He describes air raids in Cairo, how Rommel was pushed back, how war was declared while he was on the ship to Africa. Bombers ferried across the...
(4:15 min.) (06 of 28) 6. WWII Some of his friends went to Canada to fly with the Royal Air Force [RAF]; many of them did not come home. George went to Africa to build runways and supply aircraft. He was with Pan Am/World Airways (Pan Am...
(5:25 min.) (07 of 28) 7. Across the Atlantic Georgetown, French Guyana was the next stop, not Africa. The ship was zigzagging; the Captain and First Mate would open orders each day and set a new course. On board was a Pan Am navigator;...
1 map on 6 sheets; sheets from atlas with facing pages joined to make 3 sheets. Shows tracks of various voyages. Includes text, historical and geographical notes, and tables of comparative astronomical observations. Relief shown pictorially. ...
1 map on 6 sheets; sheets from atlas with facing pages joined to make 3 sheets. Shows tracks of various voyages. Includes text, historical and geographical notes, and tables of comparative astronomical observations. Relief shown pictorially. ...
1 map on 6 sheets; sheets from atlas with facing pages joined to make 3 sheets. Shows tracks of various voyages. Includes text, historical and geographical notes, and tables of comparative astronomical observations. Relief shown pictorially. ...
2 maps of the North Pacific Ocean area printed on the same page. Suppl. 6e. carte in Diderot's Encyclopedia. Also published in Robert de Vaugondy's Recueil de 10 cartes. Relief shown pictorially.
2 maps on 1 sheet. Relief shown by hachures. In color. Map of the Arctic regions by Buache; map of a portion of the Japanese Islands by Kaempfer. "Suppl. 6e carte" of Robert de Vaugondy's Recueil de 10 cartes.