Word: logbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American whalemen knew the albatross as the "goney" bird long before the U.S. Navy had any interest in the Pacific. There is a whaleman's song entitled The Wings of a Goney, from the logbook of the whaling bark Ocean Rover on a voyage made in 1859 that starts...
...hrer Knows Best. A jerky mixture of airman's logbook and autobiography, Knoke's is the first full-dress narrative to appear in the U.S., told by one of the losers, of the great air battles that were fought over Western Europe in World War II. As a professional flyer's scrapbook, it makes gripping, convincing reading, but it is spoiled, perhaps inevitably, by a scum of Nazi notions that nine years' retrospect and the detergent efforts of a British editor have signally failed to remove. Introducing Knoke, Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada, wartime...
...combat, as he had hoped ("If I ram one of the Yanks, I shall be able to take him with me"), but in an automobile crash in Czechoslovakia. Partisan bombs wrecked his staff car, crippled his legs for life. He dragged out the war in convalescence, nursing the tattered logbook that recorded 2,000 flights, 400 combat missions, 52 confirmed kills...
...haired Lieut. Colonel Walter K. Selenger was still one of the hottest pilots in the U.S. Air Force. A middle-aged man as jet fighter pilots go, "Lefty" Selenger could fly with the best of the Air Force's youngsters and, with 2,041 jet hours in his logbook, he outranked them all in flying time...