The Snapshots in Time Collection

U.S. Navy Pilot Flight Logbook Pages, November 1952, PBM-5 Mariner - Lt. Bancroft Korean War Collection

U.S. Navy Pilot Flight Logbook Pages, November 1952, PBM-5 Mariner - Lt. Bancroft Korean War Collection

This page from Lt. Bancroft's personal flight logbook records a series of long-range PBM-5 Mariner flying boat flights across the Pacific in November 1952, tracing a route from Alameda, California through Pearl Harbor, Johnston Island, Kwajalein, and Guam to Yokosuka, Japan. Logbooks like this provide a precise, day-by-day record of naval aviators' operational flying during the Korean War. Project: 218133