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WWII B17 Navigator Log - Very interesting

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calf

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Not sure where else to post this, but below is a link to the log of a WWII B17 Navigator.

FYI,

He mentions 'Take Off at xx:xx', and then leaving England 3 or so hours later multiple times. From reading other forums, people think the time may include briefing, preflight, waiting to take off and then getting lined up in the air. B-17 cruise at about 180 mph (I think).

Ashfield is 70 mile NE of London.
B17 Log
 
It's interesting, but I'm not sure what it is. It's not a logbook, which would list airports, waypoints, flight hours, etc. It looks like the guy summarized his experiences after the fact. I say that because the text is typed but the dates are filled in by hand and there is the remark "Dates Approximate". If he had been working from his logbook he would have had the exact dates in front of him. More likely he was working from a personal journal, whose entries he neglected to date. Interesting reading, not so much for the combat entries but for his other comments. It reminds me a lot of some letters I have that my dad wrote to his pastor back home during the war.
 
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