The Snapshots in Time Collection

Cover of U.S. Navy Aviator's Flight Log Book (Form AER-4111), World War II Era, 1942–1948

Cover of U.S. Navy Aviator's Flight Log Book (Form AER-4111), World War II Era, 1942–1948

The worn cover of a U.S. Navy 'Aviators Flight Log Book' (Form AER-4111), the official record book in which naval aviators documented every flight of their careers. This volume, spanning January 1942 to September 1948, preserves one pilot's complete World War II flying record — a tangible artifact of the training and operational demands placed on America's naval aviators during the war. Project: 218060