CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Foreword, by Walter J. Boyne

Acknowledgments

Introduction

  1. The Challenge

  2. The Preparation

  3. The Adventure Begins

  4. Daring the Aleutians

  5. Seattle Is Lost

  6. First across the Pacific

  7. To China and the “Paris of the Orient”

  8. On to Calcutta

  9. Paris by Bastille Day

10. Preparing for the North Atlantic

11. North America at Last!

12. Mission Accomplished

Photo Insert

Epilogue

Appendix: The Route of the Flight

Map of the Flight Route

Notes

Further Reading