Interview conducted by Carol L. Osbourne on December 6, 1997.
Final transcript
The interview describes Captain Cornelius K. Dunbar’s experiences as a pilot for Pan American World Airways from 1936 to 1967; civilian training at the Embry Riddle Flying School; military training in the Army Air Corps at March and Kelly Fields in 1929; service in the 15th Observation Squad flying observation planes, and his flight and camera equipment; hiring by Pan American; flight school; work as a navigator, co-pilot, and pilot; routes he flew: from Brownsville to Panama, and Guatemala, from New York to Horta (Azores) and Lisbon, and from San Francisco to Honolulu, Canton Island, Espiritu Santo, Funafuti, Tokyo, Vietnam, London, Frankfurt, Vienna, Constantinople (Istanbul), Beirut, and the round-the-world route; airplanes he flew: Waco 9 and Waco 10, Martin PBM-3 and the M-130, Douglas DC-2 and DC-3, Sikorsky S-42, Boeing 314, 377 Stratocruiser, 707, and 747; flying for Pan American during World War II; relationship between the company and the United States military; encounters with Lt. General James Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, Andre Priester, R. O. D. Sullivan, and Harold Gray; very brief description of Treasure Island and Coast Guard Station at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in the 1940s.
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