Lawreston
En-Route
Many of you, if on my mailing list, received from me a series of B & W photos which were found(not by me) to have been taken by a Brownie camera which was found in an old locker. The photos were astonishing shots of Pearl Harbor, December 1941. Comments have been flying back re them. One response came from a long time customer of mine who lives just around the corner from my old camera store. His comments are most interesting, and I'm posting them here. If anyone who didn't receive the photos would like to have them please e-mail me on-the-side and I'll forward same to you.
HR
"Wow!!
What a find. Thanks very much for sharing them. I well remember the day. My father worked for United Airlines and was the company expert on air freight who was working jointly with the U.S. Post Office developing "Air Mail".
He received a phone call at home soon after we had finished Sunday Dinner. It was White House operator who authorized him to rush any tannic acid ointment that he could locate. The ointment was used for burn treatments and was manufactured in Illinois where we lived at the time. He had Presidential authority to order the material, to stop any commercial airplane, displace passengers,etc and get the medicine delivered to San Francisco. We already had heard about Pearl Harbor on the radio. He spent the next 24 hours, non-stop, locating the medicine, matching it with westbound commercial airliners, and expediting delivery to San Fran.. where commercial airliners were dispatched to Pearl. And all of these transactions took place with out any paperwork. An incredible response by many unsung heroes who took extreme steps to save lives. And the longest range airplanes were DC3's, never designed for such long flights, piloted by United Airlines and American Airlines pilots who had never flown long distance over the ocean.
Thanks and Regards
JIM B.
James A. Burbank Il
Certified Senior Business Counselor"
HR
"Wow!!
What a find. Thanks very much for sharing them. I well remember the day. My father worked for United Airlines and was the company expert on air freight who was working jointly with the U.S. Post Office developing "Air Mail".
He received a phone call at home soon after we had finished Sunday Dinner. It was White House operator who authorized him to rush any tannic acid ointment that he could locate. The ointment was used for burn treatments and was manufactured in Illinois where we lived at the time. He had Presidential authority to order the material, to stop any commercial airplane, displace passengers,etc and get the medicine delivered to San Francisco. We already had heard about Pearl Harbor on the radio. He spent the next 24 hours, non-stop, locating the medicine, matching it with westbound commercial airliners, and expediting delivery to San Fran.. where commercial airliners were dispatched to Pearl. And all of these transactions took place with out any paperwork. An incredible response by many unsung heroes who took extreme steps to save lives. And the longest range airplanes were DC3's, never designed for such long flights, piloted by United Airlines and American Airlines pilots who had never flown long distance over the ocean.
Thanks and Regards
JIM B.
James A. Burbank Il
Certified Senior Business Counselor"
