The Snapshots in Time Collection

Lt. Wayne E. Bancroft's Naval Aviator Flight Logbook, March 1952 (PBM-5 Mariner Operations)

Lt. Wayne E. Bancroft's Naval Aviator Flight Logbook, March 1952 (PBM-5 Mariner Operations)

This page from Lt. Wayne E. Bancroft's personal flight logbook records a March 1952 trans-Pacific journey aboard a PBM-5 Mariner flying boat, tracing a route from Okinawa through the Philippines, Guam, Kwajalein, and Johnston Island to Pearl Harbor and ultimately Alameda, California. Logbooks like this document the extraordinary reach of Navy patrol aviation during the Korean War, when flying boats routinely bridged vast stretches of open ocean across the Pacific. Project: 218132