Digital Release: Pan American Airways Wartime Transatlantic Air Mail

Pan American Airways Wartime Transatlantic Air Mail
Censorship and the LATI Substitute
by John Wilson & Frank Walton RDP FRPSL

A new digital release from the RPSL

This book is a fascinating account of how the United States of America and the United Kingdom co-operated during World War II to run a censorship and intelligence-gathering operation on mail travelling between the Axis countries in Europe and countries in Latin America with pro-Axis sympathies. Pan American Airways took the place of the Italian-owned LATI (Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane) transatlantic airmail delivery service, which had started in 1939 but was terminated by the USA following that country’s entry into the war in December 1941. The allied censorship operation was based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and had not been the subject of study hitherto. This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of the airmail routes and the censorship process that were developed. The authors used a combination of archival materials and relevant covers to tell its amazing story.

 

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The book was originally published in December 2020. This 312-page book is sold out in hardcopy, but digital copies are available for download FREE to Members and £20 to non-members through the RPSL website.