The Snapshots in Time Collection
U.S. Navy Pilot Flight Logbook Page, January 1950 — F6F-5 Hellcat Training Flights
This page from a U.S. Navy aviator's flight logbook records training sorties flown in the F6F-5 Hellcat fighter during January 1950. Handwritten remarks note exercises in glide bombing, division tactics, oxygen procedures, and section tactics — the kind of squadron training that prepared naval aviators for fleet operations in the years surrounding the outbreak of the Korean War. Project: 218062