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Pan Am’s Legacy

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n the February 2022 article on Pan American airlines’ involvement in and support of the U.S. interest in the Vietnam War (“Pan Am’s War,” by Jim Trautman), one important detail was omitted. As a former member of the Air Force Postal and Courier Service, first at Cam Ranh Bay, then at Tan Son

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