Stranded in the Sky: The Untold Story of Pan Am Luxury Airliners Trapped on the Day of Infamy by Philip Jett

Author:Philip Jett
Format: epub

The streets and harbor of Hong Kong came alive Monday morning, December 8. Shop owners laid out their ivories, linens, and colorful silks in neat piles. Markets displayed their fresh fish on planks and juicy produce inside shallow crates for passing customers to inspect. In Victoria Harbor, junks hoisted their sails and dropped their nets, hoping for a bountiful catch. Unmoored from the harbor docks, freighters flying flags of almost every maritime nation carried their precious cargoes out of the harbor into the South China Sea, headed for faraway ports where merchants desired exotic goods from the Far East.

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