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Further Reading & Sources
Title	Author	Comment
Skyway to Asia	William S. Grooch © June 1936, Longmans, Green & Company	Grooch’s first hand account of the first voyage of the *S.S.* *North Haven*
Pacific Pioneers: The Rest of the Story 1935 – 1945	Jon Krupnick © 2000 Pictorial History Publishing Company	Wonderful large book filled with original sources, photos and stories
Pan American’s Ocean Clippers	Barry Taylor: © 1991 TAB AERO, McGraw-Hill	Complete guide to the Clippers from the S-40 to the B-314
The Pan Am Clipper	Roy Allen: © 2000 Barnes & Noble	Great coffee table book. General information with many personal anecdotes. Not too technical
An American Saga – Juan Trippe and His Pan AM Empire	Robert Daily: © 1990 Random House	Excellent details on the events on the Pacific Atolls when the *S.S. North Haven* was elsewhere. Fills gaps left in Grooch’s account
Wings to the Orient	Stan Cohen: © 1985 Pictorial History Publishing Company	Great coffee table book. More detailed information with charts and graphs.
Flying the Oceans – A Pilot’s Story of Pan Am	Horace Brock: © 1978 J Aronson Inc.	Tales of the early pacific flights on the M-130s and B-314s
North to the Orient	Anne Morrow Lindbergh: © 1935 Hardcourt, Brace & Co	Anne’s account of the Lindbergh’s exploratory flight to the Orient for Pan Am.
Riding the Reef	Voortmeyer & Nickisher: © 2005 Paladar Press	Diary of a man who worked on Peale Island, Wake Archipelago to build Pan Am’s China Clipper base as told by this daughter.
Pan Am – an Airline and its Aircraft	R.E.G. Davies Illustrated by Mike Machat © 1987 Paladar Press	Lot’s of line drawings, technical specs and fascinating facts about the Clippers
Secret Missions	Ellis M. Zacharias: © 1946 Blue Jacket Books	Humble autobiography of the top US Naval Counter Intelligence Officer. Zacharias describes his pre WW II hunt for Japanese Spies on the West Coast, in Washington DC and in Hawaii.
The Man Who Watched the Rising Sun: The Story of Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias	Maria Wilhelm: © 1967 Ginger / Watts	A less humble version of Zachariais’ many success and occasional failures.
China Clipper	Ronald W. Jackson: © 1980 Everest House	Details and speculations about Japanese espionage and sabotage directed at Pan Am between 1935 – 1945
*The China Clipper, Pan American Airways and Popular Culture,*	Larry Weirather © 2006 McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers	Larry Weirather's excellent book about the cultural impact of the China Clipper is a great read. If you're a Clipper enthusiast or interested in popular culture you will enjoy this thoroughly researched book.

For a concise webpage on general aviation history, check out: History of Flight