I made six crossings of the Pacific by the time I was 13 years old Army Brat.
MSTS featured a two week ride, Seattle to Yokohama, Yokohama to Seattle...
We arrived in Japan in September 1956. The Pan Am ditching was a month later and the magazine covers showed the doomed tailless plane. Post barber shop still had Life magazines on the Andrea Doria sinking.
There were several Stratocruiser crashes in the Pacific during the next two years. There was one where an engine seized & tore up the adjacent prop; they landed safely on two engines. One, The Romance of the Skies, had friends of ours on board when it disappeared without a trace.
Learned much later that the 28 cylinder “corncob” engines on the Boeing 377 were notoriously unreliable.
Flew to Japan & back; I always envied those who voyaged on Army transport ships like the Gen. E.D. Patrick (there are vids of its final days).