Hawaiian Clipper
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Fix on the Rising Sun: the Clipper Hi-jacking of
1938—and the Ultimate M.I.A.’s.
By: Charles N. Hill
The true account of the July 28, 1938 hi-jacking, west of
Guam, of Pan American Airways’ trans-Pacific flying boat, Hawaii Clipper, and of the still-secret interment of her nine
crew and six passengers, in the concrete foundation
slab of the Japanese Fourth Fleet naval hospital, at Dublon
Island, Truk, in the Caroline Islands.
The book outlines the history of the Clipper penetration of
the Pacific and recounts the several investigations, official, semi-official and private, regarding the loss of
Hawaii Clipper to radical aviators of the Imperial
Japanese Navy. It also notes the fate of the 15 aboard, who were murdered
and encased within the poured concrete foundation slab of what would become the infamous warcrimes
site: the Imperial Navy’s Fourth Fleet hospital, at Dublon Island, Truk. The clearly expressed goal of the book
is to inform the public and to engender a recovery
operation (approved by three surviving relatives of crew and
passengers). |