Navigational Charts of Lae to Howland @ Oakland to Hawaii

[Randy Conrad]

Ric....Was Clarence Williams in charge of drawing up the entire map layouts of the World Flight or just the map from Howland to Lae or visa versa? If we know now that they were off by 6-7 miles via bad coordinates on map....how do we know that they weren't off on their coordinates on the other maps or points of interest. Has anyone checked into that?

[Ric Gillespie]

As far as I know, Clarence Williams drew maps for the entire world flight.  He had the wrong coordinates for Howland because the sources he used had the wrong coordinates.  He might have had outdated coordinates for other places but it doesn't matter.  They didn't use his charts.