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Post by mickywest on Mar 8, 2023 0:48:57 GMT
Eve Curie's wartime account 'Journey among Warriors' is available as an e-book from Lucknow Digital Library (India) (couple of pages missing) and also as a Controlled Digital Lending item from the Internet archive...she had previously made a trip to Europe on one of the first Pan Am services to Lisbon in 1940...here Pan Am Captain Nolan informs her that her luggage has been left behind in New York  |
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Post by Stig Jarlevik on Mar 8, 2023 8:46:23 GMT
A quite wonderful photo of a remarkable woman!
One can almost hear her saying "What???"
Thanks for sharing Micky
Cheers
Stig
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Post by mickywest on Mar 8, 2023 10:04:50 GMT
Eve Curie leading the passengers off the Boeing 314 at the Cabo Ruivo seaplane Dock at Lisbon in 1940  |
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Post by mickywest on Mar 8, 2023 12:07:31 GMT
The graph-paper movement charts BOAC used right through WWII survive, and identify the newish Lpckheed which flew Eve Curie from Kano, Nigeria 18Nov41 to Khartoum , Sudan as BOAC Lodestar G-AGBW 'Lyndhurst', service #TK168. Those sharp-eyed chaps at Airhistory.net spotted an early Kodachrome of G-AGBW in the Smithsonian Rudy Arnold collection awaiting deck-cargo shipment from Floyd Bennett field with many Hudsons and Bostons (but scanned mirror-image and filed with the Douglas Bostons !!). Possibly camouflaged on arrival in Africa? G-AGBW was lost in a fatal crash in near Nairobi 28Nov44  |
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Post by mickywest on Mar 11, 2023 19:22:17 GMT
On Friday 21Nov41 Eve Curie proceeded from Khartoum for Cairo by Empire flying boat. The BOAC charts show 2 possible Empire boats that day, EITHER on flight # JC26 G-AETZ Circe...( photograph shows it early in WWII on the Sea of Galilee, Palestine (IWM)...Circe was lost 28Feb42 between Java and Australia )  OR on flight #NE140 G-ADUX Cassiopeia....( photograph shows it in camouflage at the Sunderland base, RAF Mountbatten, Plymouth Sound, late summer 1940,about to be protected by a barrage balloon...G-ADUX was lost in fatal crash Sabang , Dutch East Indies, 29Dec41)   |
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