| WILLIAM VAN DUSEN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/14/1974
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WILLIAM VAN DUSEN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 01/14/1974 . PAN AMERICAN'S FIRST PUBLICITY DIRECTOR ANSWERS QUESTIONS ABOUT COMPANY EMPLOYEE FRED NOONAN, WHO WOULD LATER ACCOMPANY AMELIA EARHART ON HER ILL-FATED FLIGHT AROUND THE WORLD WILLIAM VAN DUSEN [FRED NOONAN]. TLS: "W. Van Dusen", 1¾p, 7¼x10½, separate sheets. Coral Gables, Florida, 1974 January 14. On his imprinted stationery to Ed Rollman, Bremerton, Washington. In full: "I'm sorry to have been so late in my answer to your inquiry about Fred Noonan and do hope that these few words will help you and are not too late. Fred Noonan was a rather special type in the early days of ocean flying. Its (sic) been so long ago I've forgotten many of yhe (sic) vital statistics about him...where he was born, when etc...but your research has undoubtedly supplied all that. Fred was not a flyer. He was a seaman, held a Matser (sic, Master) Navigator's 'ticket' that qualified him to take a vessel to any port in the world. Pan American (Airways) hired him to teach our pilots how to find their way across the oceans because, in those days, few pilots knew how to navigate. (Colonel Charles Lindbergh, for instance, just followed a set of steering instructions on his historic first solo air crossing of the Atlantic). Noonan taught the first class in transocean navigation for flyers. Captains Ed Musick and R.O.D. Sullivan, who blazed the first air routes across the Pacific, were his first pupils. An (sic, And) Fred, himself, was the naviagot (sic, navigator) on those historic flights. He was a medium tall, thin, gaunt faced man. Soft spoken. Had a crooked smile, which he used a lot, and a good sense of humor. He was a cool one, never got excited. One (sic, On) the first return survey flight from Hawaii (the schedule called for 12½ hours) the China Clipper was out 22 hours. Everyone thought they might be lost. We radioed Noonan through Musick. Fred was reading a mystery story.... For more information contact HistoryForSale. DOCUMENT 171209
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