there were nine of us and the crew, and we had a fine commander, colonel clarence irvine. we'd waited 34 days quietly of weather conditions, partly because of mechanical difficulties. everything had to be right. we were going to try to make one of the greatest flights, air history, nonstop from here in hawaii over, the north pole, and onto of our 10,000 miles away. the first time ever for such a wide and without refueling we had a few load of more than 12,000 gallons. the heaviest ever carried by a superfortress in combat gear. then we moved and she had helium in her tires to lighten the load. we had a perfect takeoff after a run of 8000 feet and all 551 on a friday we took us across the coast of alaska and, then over the north magnetic pole. the dream board took over the top of the world. she was racing an arctic storm and she no deicing equipment. she every test she had to. she was blazing an air trail over greenland. iceland, france and italy. and then egypt. everybody is pretty tired. and why not? it's sunday now and we left honolulu friday morning. we've been in the a

there were nine of us and the crew, and we had a fine commander, colonel clarence irvine. we'd waited 34 days quietly of weather conditions, partly because of mechanical difficulties. everything had to be right. we were going to try to make one of the greatest flights, air history, nonstop from here in hawaii over, the north pole, and onto of our 10,000 miles away. the first time ever for such a wide and without refueling we had a few load of more than 12,000 gallons. the heaviest ever carried by a superfortress in combat gear. then we moved and she had helium in her tires to lighten the load. we had a perfect takeoff after a run of 8000 feet and all 551 on a friday we took us across the coast of alaska and, then over the north magnetic pole. the dream board took over the top of the world. she was racing an arctic storm and she no deicing equipment. she every test she had to. she was blazing an air trail over greenland. iceland, france and italy. and then egypt. everybody is pretty tired. and why not? it's sunday now and we left honolulu friday morning. we've been in the a