Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #126 Posted March 6, 2015 Training notes....aerial mining runs, torpedo runs, and "Everything went fine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #127 Posted March 6, 2015 Looks like now overseas training, firing rockets, then off to Midway Island Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #128 Posted March 6, 2015 At Guam, had oil line busted but good landing, and saw a sub but lost it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #129 Posted March 6, 2015 Summary of some of service.....not much time on patrol duty on Midway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #130 Posted March 6, 2015 Ever find any that someone else 'used' as something else post war? Think a child got a hold of this one to use a notepad haha. Have another that has finances in the back of it all worked out for several months, kind of like a checkbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #131 Posted March 6, 2015 This one is really short, but I liked the 'nose art' applied. Crewmember of PBY to VPB-44. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #132 Posted March 6, 2015 Looks like some basic hops between islands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #133 Posted March 6, 2015 Ends up with several Dumbo missions on a couple more pages, although no more info is given Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #134 Posted March 6, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #135 Posted March 6, 2015 This one was kind of funny.....bought it 'blindly'....starts out training in a PBY....several months worth....then suddenly right when you assume he's heading overseas to combat....nothing! Turns out he ended up getting transferred on to some ships....a few evacuation transports and a cargo ship! Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #136 Posted March 6, 2015 Notes pilot killed on first entry at later date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #138 Posted March 6, 2015 Seemed to bounce around a lot...unfortunately for this thread not on any aircraft... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waltz41 Posted March 6, 2015 Share #139 Posted March 6, 2015 I have a few more interesting ones, esp one in a grouping I will eventually post. Again, nothing that comes close to matching previous books, but I thought I'd share. Each logbook tells it's own story; a pretty intimate, precise story which is why I like them so much. Hopefully we can see some more in people's collections. I'll add more when I can if it's ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djltucker Posted April 26, 2015 Share #140 Posted April 26, 2015 Here is my family's Aviator Logbook of my uncle, Lt. William R Larson of Hanks, North Dakota. He was a SOC pilot on the USS Nashville, served during the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, and later a TBF pilot with VC 38 over the Solomon Islands while island hopping from Guadalcanal and Munda. He was MIA during transport plane crash returning from 7 day R&R in Sydney, Australia on Dec 27 1943. The bombing photo is of Kara Airfield bombing 31 October 1943. William's plane was one of the 24 TBFs that attacked that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFCMNAP47-81 Posted June 26, 2015 Share #141 Posted June 26, 2015 IMG_2457.JPG Names/Bureau Numbers listed in your logbook March 1942. Killed 4 June 1942 attacking the Japanese carrier Soryu at Midway Lt(jg) Campbell (NAP 1930). Lt R. A. Moore. Aviation Pilot First Class R. B. Miles (NAP 1939), and Ensign U. M. Moore. Crewmen killed 4 June: Maffei, Pettry, Calkins, Clark, Creasey, Sawhill, Bibb. TBD-1 Bureau Numbers/pilots and Crewmen 4 June: T-16 1506 Commanding Officer Lcdr John C. Waldron/H.F. Dobbs, T-7 0284 Ensign J. P. Gray/M. A. Calkins, T-3 0297 Ensign W. R. Evans Jr/R. E. Bibb Jr, T-5 0308 Lt.(jg) Jeff Woodson (NAP 1930)/O. D. Creasy Jr, T-10 1509 Ensign H. R. Kenyon Jr/D.I. Clark, T-13 0372 Ensign W. W. Abercrombie/B. P. Phelps. The name Schauer? not listed in Torpedo 8 roster 1 June 1942 (there was a Walter Schauer NAP 1938 died 1986. Fayle was in hospitital/Hawaii with a knife wound to leg (thought by some to be self inflicted). Fayle was replaced on the flight schedule by NAP Miles. Lt's Junior Grade Woodson and Campbell had been Naval Aviation Pilots (NAP) with many years flying experience second only to Skipper Waldron (Naval Aviator 1927). They had only recently fleeted up from Chief Aviation Pilot 21 March 1942. Chief Aviation Pilot Cambell flew 7 & 9 March, Lt(jg) Campbell flew 24 March. Sources:General knowledge backed with "TBD Devastator Units of The US Navy" Barret Tillman, "Sole Survivor" George Gay, "A Dawn Like Thunder" Robert J. Mrazek and various NAP material. With additional and enlightening information uncovered and in print in last few years-I believe Lcdr Waldron should have been/be awarded the Medal of Honor. Commander Waldron, a Salute Sir, Fair Winds and Following Seas for you and the gallant men of Torpedo 8! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFCMNAP47-81 Posted June 26, 2015 Share #142 Posted June 26, 2015 This logbook belonged to MSgt R F Kennedy of VMSB-243 Multiple NAP reference material: Cannot locate a NAP R. F. Kennedy prior to 1946. VMSB-243 website photograph of pilots discloses Raymond F. Kennedy as Executive Officer to the Commanding Officer, Major Joseph Kean (Kean took over squadron 1 October 1944). Same website has a photograph of Kennedy wearing a ballcap with what appears to be Captain's bars. There are 4 Kennedy names in Naval Aviation Pilot rosters-Navy Harold L. NAP 1945, Marine Jack A. NAP 1947, Marine Raymond F. NAP 1946, and Navy William F. 1947. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFCMNAP47-81 Posted July 4, 2015 Share #143 Posted July 4, 2015 Any new ones out there?Logbook for Marine Naval Aviation Pilot Lee Clark (NAP 1930). Nicaragua Marine, killed along with passenger Private Richard Campbell in crash of Curtiss O2C-1 Bureau Number 8756 23 March 1931 at Corinto. Corporal when logbook started, listed elsewhere as Staff Sergeant at time of death. Logbook stamps as "Aircraft Squadrons, 2nd Brigade, U.S.M.C. Managua, Nicaragua" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swmdo Posted December 27, 2015 Share #144 Posted December 27, 2015 Very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdsco Posted January 11, 2018 Share #145 Posted January 11, 2018 My Dad was a USMC Naval Airman January 1943 2nd Lieutenant He served in the South Pacific theater through 1946 and the Korea Conflict through 1954 He flew TBF and TBM -1 through 3E, Hellcat F6F-5n Corsair F4U-4, B25-J, C47 and R4D-5 in the SP theater He was assigned to HMX-1 in 1947 with VMO-6 in 1947 through 1954 I am looking for a definition of two phrases he uses in his logbook remarks section during SP operations 1) GROUP GRIND referencing TBM flights (cannot find any internet reference to "group grind" other than video gaming) 2) 2AS and 6AS referencing TBM flights (number denotes hours? anti-submarine or assault Support?) I wish to thank you in advance for any light you can shed on these logbook terms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share #146 Posted January 15, 2018 This thread hasnt had any new logbooks added in a while ( I'm guilty of that) so I thought I would share this one that I picked up a few months ago. Its to a Radioman Gunner with VT-45 on the USS San Jacinto. Its the same ship George Bush served on, but not the same squadron, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share #147 Posted January 15, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KASTAUFFER Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share #149 Posted March 22, 2019 This thread isnt receiving as much love as it should, so I am posting another logbook. It is from an AOM3c Who served with Torpedo Squadron 17 on the USS Hornet in 1945. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KASTAUFFER Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share #150 Posted March 22, 2019 There is more combat in this log than this one page, but you get the idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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