5/22/2023 0 Comments Come fly the world by julia cooke![]() ![]() government to shuttle soldiers to and from Saigon. ![]() During the war, Pan Am received a sizeable contract from the U.S. Through firsthand accounts of several former flight attendants, Cooke was able to tell the tale of several decades of Pan Am’s history.Ī poignant theme throughout the book is Pan Am’s involvement in the Vietnam War, a fact I knew nothing of until now. I only ever have read and heard of Pan Am, as the now defunct airline ceased operations before my time. Pan American World Airways, or Pan Am, and the women who made up the debonair crews of the famed airline are the subject of Cooke’s book. ![]() These are the times described in Julia Cooke’s “Come Fly the World.” Come Fly the World by Julia Cooke The show, the glamour, the service, and the privilege it was to fly in the ’60s and ’70s. Whenever we flew, she would talk about days past in which one would find a new outfit to fly in because it was an occasion. My mother used to lament the air travel she remembered from when she was young. ![]()
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