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Now long forgotten, the 'Takoradi route' from the Gold Coast to Egypt

was the Allies' most important supply line of World War II.

In the Spring of 1941, Prime Minister Winston Churchill knew it was the

best, if not only, hope for quickly getting supplies to British forces

defending Cairo and the Suez from Hitler's Afrika Korps.

He also knew that the Royal Air Force was in no position to make it work.

It would take the foresight of a determined American president and the

ingenuity of a pioneering civilian airline to accomplish a mission the

world's greatest military powers could not.

PAA - Africa, Ltd., and a sister company, Pan Am Ferries, Inc., would

keep the Allies supplied from Africa to China. This unique alliance, in

which a private company was treated as a virtual equal by two world

powers, would have a profound impact on the fight against the Axis

nations. The arrangement also puts Pan American Airways in the war

months ahead of the United States military. PAA - Africa would thus play

a key support role against Nazi Germany in the critical battle of El Alemein.

In the evacuation of Burma, PAA - Africa would save hundreds from

certain death by Imperial Japanese forces.

Please help us "Across the Sahara"! [They did!]

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	August 2001 - Initial taping commences with interviews of historians in DC-area.
	November 2001 - Production continues with interviews of PAA - Africa veterans at reunion in San Francisco.
	August 2002 - PBS expresses interest in screening rough-cut of completed film.
	On-going: Funding search continues for project finishing funds.
	Fall 2005 - Additional research reveals compelling new storyline for film.
	Spring 2006 - Fundraising campaign steps up.
	Spring 2007 - Editing script to be completed.
	October 2007 - Pan American World Airways 80th Anniversary - Miami, FL.

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