This page from Pat McAleer's WWII flight logbook records a month of intensive fighter combat training in January 1944, flying F4U and FG-1 Corsairs, FM-1 Wildcats, and SNJ trainers between Naval Air Station Santa Barbara and North Island. Entries progress from formation tactics and landing practice to dummy gunnery runs, aerial combat, and live gunnery firing -- the final stages of preparing Navy and Marine pilots for Pacific combat. Project: 218037