The Snapshots in Time Collection
Pilot Flight Logbook, August 1949 — FG-1D Corsair Training Sorties, McAleer Collection
A page from Marine aviator Pat McAleer's personal flight logbook, recording FG-1D Corsair training sorties flown in August 1949. Entries document ferry flights, air support exercises, dive bombing, rocketry, and gunnery training — the demanding flight regimen that prepared fighter-bomber pilots for combat operations in the years immediately preceding the Korean War. Project: 218042