Word: logbook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This group of flyers struck perhaps the hardest blows in daylight ever delivered by an air force." The commander of this group, U.S. Major General James H. Doolittle, had to be reminded last week that April 18 was the anniversary of his raid on Tokyo. He looked in his logbook, found an entry describing "a 13-hour flight - one landing," and said: "So it was." On a typical day last week his Fortresses found 112 Axis transport planes on the ground at Castel-vetrano, Sicily, and destroyed 51, including eight huge six-motored planes; found 106 more at Milo, destroyed...
...Francisco, American Hawaiian Steamship officials read a logbook entry made by Captain B. Leep of their S.S. Oklahoman: "Left Portland with 10 heifers, arrived Manila with 9 heifers, one cow and bull calf...