MelmothTheLost
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MMelmothTheLost reacted to Austin023's post in the thread OR OR – Martin Family Ken 54, Barbara 48, Barbie 15, Columbia River Gorge, Dec 7 1958 with
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For any sources I've ever consulted, Donald is their son to both Kenneth and Barbara. Donald was born in 1930, about a year after they... -
MMelmothTheLost replied to the thread Guam - Disappearance of Pan Am Hawaii Clipper Flight 229, enroute Guam to Manila, 28 July 1938.Indeed, but almost the entire route was either over long stretches of open ocean with very limited options for dealing with an emergency...
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MMelmothTheLost replied to the thread Guam - Disappearance of Pan Am Hawaii Clipper Flight 229, enroute Guam to Manila, 28 July 1938.Back to the gold certificates: if the wording I quoted in an earlier post says what I think it says (but I'm happy to be corrected if...
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MMelmothTheLost replied to the thread Guam - Disappearance of Pan Am Hawaii Clipper Flight 229, enroute Guam to Manila, 28 July 1938.Another thing which has been not exactly bothering me about this whole gold certificates thing but, well, I dunno but .... Choy's...
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MMelmothTheLost replied to the thread Guam - Disappearance of Pan Am Hawaii Clipper Flight 229, enroute Guam to Manila, 28 July 1938.Thanks for a very comprehensive response, which I've clipped purely for brevity. I must admit that I don't know much about WWII in the...
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MMelmothTheLost reacted to Richard's post in the thread Guam - Disappearance of Pan Am Hawaii Clipper Flight 229, enroute Guam to Manila, 28 July 1938 with Like.
Standard procedure (then and now) in any type of emergency is to send out a "May Day" radio message with the following information...
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MMelmothTheLost replied to the thread Guam - Disappearance of Pan Am Hawaii Clipper Flight 229, enroute Guam to Manila, 28 July 1938.The radioed flight reports in post #7 above give no indication of bad weather during the flight so that seems unlikely. Since the plane...
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MMelmothTheLost replied to the thread Guam - Disappearance of Pan Am Hawaii Clipper Flight 229, enroute Guam to Manila, 28 July 1938.How would this have worked in practice? The wording on the certificate reads "Redeemable in gold on demand at the United States Treasury...
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MMelmothTheLost reacted to jetsfanjohn's post in the thread Guam - Disappearance of Pan Am Hawaii Clipper Flight 229, enroute Guam to Manila, 28 July 1938 with Like.
Engine failure or crashed in bad weather would be my best guess.
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MMelmothTheLost replied to the thread OR OR – Martin Family Ken 54, Barbara 48, Barbie 15, Columbia River Gorge, Dec 7 1958.It's weird, I agree. Usually gaps in the ages of children are explained by miscarriages or children who die in infancy, but you say...
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MMelmothTheLost replied to the thread Guam - Disappearance of Pan Am Hawaii Clipper Flight 229, enroute Guam to Manila, 28 July 1938.See, I don't understand how the Japanese could have "hijacked" the plane. When we talk of hijacking we mean a passenger taking over the...
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MMelmothTheLost reacted to bettyboop's post in the thread Guam - Disappearance of Pan Am Hawaii Clipper Flight 229, enroute Guam to Manila, 28 July 1938 with Like.
Thank You, @Richard, for another fascinating thread! My personal opinion is a lightning strike, but the hijacking theory is intriguing...
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MMelmothTheLost replied to the thread Guam - Disappearance of Pan Am Hawaii Clipper Flight 229, enroute Guam to Manila, 28 July 1938.How would the Japanese authorities know that Choy was to be a passenger on the flight, and if they did how would they know he was...
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MMelmothTheLost replied to the thread OR OR – Martin Family Ken 54, Barbara 48, Barbie 15, Columbia River Gorge, Dec 7 1958.Do we know if the couple were both the parents of all the children? The age gap makes me wonder whether Donald was the child of an...
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MMelmothTheLost replied to the thread OR OR – Martin Family Ken 54, Barbara 48, Barbie 15, Columbia River Gorge, Dec 7 1958.This is an interesting article on the treatments and medication available for treating heart disease in the 1950s...
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