"FIRST CLIPPER CUTIES: First Pan American Airways Stewardesses were hired in 1944 to relieve men for war duty." UM Libraries Digital Exhibits The image of the early flight attendant was the result ...

Four years before its mysterious final flight, the Pan Am Stratocruiser 944 appeared in ... those teachers you always remember, was a flight attendant. Both Bill and Marie died in the accident.

A section titled “Jet Age Woman” points out how Pan Am’s requirement that flight attendants be college-educated and (at minimum) bilingual helped move women toward greater social and ...

As grieving families waited for answers - the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board launched its investigation into what had happened to Pan Am Flight 7 ... the air disaster, a man named William Harrison ...