The Snapshots in Time Collection

U.S. Navy Pilot Flight Logbook, September 1949 - FG-1D Corsair and SNJ Gunnery/Instrument Training, NAS Oakland

U.S. Navy Pilot Flight Logbook, September 1949 - FG-1D Corsair and SNJ Gunnery/Instrument Training, NAS Oakland

This page from a U.S. Navy pilot's flight logbook records gunnery and instrument training flights in the FG-1D Corsair fighter and SNJ trainer at NAS Oakland, California, in September 1949. Logbooks like this one, part of the Pat McAleer collection, document the rigorous peacetime training that kept naval aviators combat-ready in the years between World War II and the outbreak of the Korean War. Project: 218062