Oakland Airport & Trans-Pacific Flight Memorabilia

Oakland Airport & the 1928 Trans-Pacific flight: original associated press photo of James Warner (radio operator) & Charles Ulm (relief pilot) titled, a minute to Go, at Oakland Airport while Kingsford Smith was warming up the engines of the Southern cross; another press photo of the Southern cross during pre-flight preparations, with the Paramount news van at left, mechanics and officials around the plane; and the July-August 1935 edition of the port of Oakland, compass, magazine, the edition devoted completely to, air Commerce, . Kingsford Smith features in an article headed, famous Flights, in which the May/June Trans-Pacific flight that left from Oakland is detailed, as well as Kingsford Smith's July 4, 1930 completion at Oakland of his circumnavigation of the globe, his Nov.1934 first trans-Pacific flight that terminated at Oakland and, sadly, the loss at sea of Ulm & Littlejohn on their Dec.1934 flight from Oakland via Honolulu and Suva. (3 items).