Word: logbooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Playwright Anderson had just returned from watching the progress of U.S. soldiers in North Africa. At night's end he wrote in the logbook: "There is no longer the slightest danger of bombing or invasion. . . . Let us get rid of this wasteful and retarding defense setup of ours...
...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...
...Biscay. Of her crew, normally 854 officers and men, no were rescued by the Velasco. Fishing boats searched the area for hours, found not a body or a survivor but other things: several German newspapers, the captain's cap, an officer's jacket, the Espana's, logbook. Its last entry...
World's most persistent aviator is a Kansas City optical goods manufacturer named John David Brock. He learned to fly in 1922, has owned a plane ever since. In the autumn of 1929 he observed in his logbook that he had missed only eleven days' flying that year. For fun, he decided to try flying every day. In rain, shine, snow and fog, he went up daily for a 15-minute spin. Even when sub-zero weather grounded the airmail Dr. Brock took off. In dead of winter snowplows cleared runways for him. When he came down...