This book is a thrilling story about one of the most unique flights in the history of aviation. Having left Pearl Harbor just before the Japanese attack, the Pan Am seaplane (a Boing 314 Clipper) is ordered to continue flying west on total radio silence. Their ultimate goal - to reach New York's La Guardia airport. Flying often with the wrong fuel, i.e. 90 octane auto gas instead of 100 octane aviation fuel, taking off vastly overloaded with spare engines, engine parts and barrels of oil, flying over the continent of Australia where there is no place for a seaplane to land and taking off, again overloaded, from there Congo River just before it becomes a major waterfall, these are just a few of the challenges that face the heroic Captain and crew if this remarkable airplane on a remarkable trip.