The Snapshots in Time Collection

Naval Aviator's Flight Logbook, August 1951 - PBM-5 Mariner Patrols

Naval Aviator's Flight Logbook, August 1951 - PBM-5 Mariner Patrols

A page from Lieutenant W. E. Bancroft's personal flight logbook, August 1951, recording routine patrol flights in a PBM-5 Mariner flying boat across the Western Pacific, including repeated 'Formosa Straits' patrols flown during the tense early years of the Korean War as the US Seventh Fleet maintained a watch over the Taiwan Strait. Project: 218133