There were two Huge Wartime Missions for Northwest Airlines: Build, staff and operate a Bomber Modification Center in St. Paul for the U.S. Army, and for the Air Transport Command, start and operate a new airline called Northwest Airlines Northern Region
Last B-24 to come off the line at the Bomber Modification Center at Holman Field in St. Paul, 1945. Photo: Harry Chin
Freezing, windswept Shemya Island in Northwest Airlines’ Northern Region, 1940s. Photo: Phyllis Curry
Anne Kerr, author of Fujiyama Trays and Oshibori Towels, winner of the 2009 Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame Writer’s Award, has added 56 pages and 83 photos to the original book. The Second Edition, published in May, 2015, chronicles her experiences as a Northwest Orient Airlines stewardess in the 1950s and more recently as a speaker, blogger and NWA History Centre volunteer. 131 photos. 183 pages.
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