China Clipper flight departure site when Sikorsky S-42 "Samoan Clipper" exploded over Samoa in January, 1938. "Hawaii Clipper" disappeared westbound from Guam to Manila in July, 1938. There were unsubstantiated rumors of Japanese involvement, similar to those arising from the disappearance of Amelia Earhart a year earlier. Earhart's navigator, Fred Noonan, had been navigator aboard "China Clipper" during the initial airmail flight. Boeing 314 flying boats "Honolulu Clipper" (NC18601) and "California Clipper" (NC18602) joined the surviving Martin M-130s in 1939, and "Pacific Clipper" (NC18609) and "Anzac Clipper" (NC18611) extended service to New Zealand and Australia in 1941. "Philippine Clipper" returned to Wake when it received
Peggy Noonan son Will was born in 1987. Noonan and her husband were divorced after five years of marriage. In 1989 she returned with her son to her native New York. In 2004, according to an interview with "Crisis Magazine", she lived in a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights with her son, who attended the nearby Saint Ann's School. Noonan lives in New York City. She is a practicing Roman Catholic and attends St. Thomas More Church on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Peggy Noonan Margaret Ellen "Peggy" Noonan (born September 7, 1950) is an American author of several books on politics, religion, and