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The Log Book Project

The global journey of St Lucian, Cyril Devaux's RAF fighter pilot log book to collect 1st hand accounts from veterans and witnesses of wwii

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An ordinary Swede with a passion for history and just grateful to be given the chance to participate and contribute to the project.
Cyril Devaux

With TAG63 to Guantanamo

8 September 2023 Lars McKie 0

With the United States formally entering WWII because of the attack on Pearl Harbour by Japan, and Germany declaring war in December 1941, Caribbean waters becomes a frontline. The unrestricted submarine warfare waged by Axis [Read more]

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Cpl. Barney Sterling and Pfc. Arthur Atwood

21 August 2023 Lars McKie 0

Arthur Pendleton of Co H, 2nd Battalion 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division honoured The Log Book with his signature in 2017. While project founder Nick Devaux was accommodated for several effortless hours in their [Read more]

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Remember the Alamo!

8 August 2023 Lars McKie 0

A pivotal event in the Texas Revolution was the Battle of the Alamo fought in 1836. Having driven out all Mexican troops in earlier months from Mexican Texas about a hundred Texians were garrisoned at [Read more]

Cyril Devaux

The journey started 29 May 1943

29 May 2023 Lars McKie 0

Cyril Devaux‘s journey to join the war effort started in 1943, like many others, eager to do his part, and surely impacted by the war going on in the Caribbean. There is a common misconception [Read more]

Tribute Forum

Rev Robert Alexander Simmons

2 February 2023 Lars McKie 0

Ordained in 1932 Irish born Rev. Robert Alexander Simmons deployed to the Mediterranean with the 64th Medium Regiment in 1941. On the island of Crete his regiment faced the huge German airborne invasion, Operation Mercury, [Read more]

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A greeting from AirmenDK

27 January 2023 Lars McKie 0

The website Airmen.dk has been online since 2007 providing information on allied airmen and aircraft shot down over Denmark during WWII. It currently holds data on 463 aircraft and 3089 airmen shot down over occupied [Read more]

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Asahi Shimbun article by Mayuri Ito

29 December 2022 Lars McKie 0

The project is most honoured by the recent article published in The Asahi Shimbun (Asahi News) by journalist Mrs Mayuri Ito. The paper is not only one of the oldest but also among the four [Read more]

Veterans Breakfast Club

Admiral Bull Halsey’s Steward, Conrad Castillo on VBC Happy Hour

21 December 2022 Lars McKie 0

Project webmaster and researcher Lars McKie joined up with Jeff Mossinghof to speak about his grandfather on a VBC session. “Conrad Castillo was a Filipino Steward in the US Navy during World War II assigned [Read more]

Cyril Devaux

Cuban convergence

1 December 2022 Lars McKie 0

As Nick embarked on his journey towards Japan, escorting The Log Book to its next appointment, it was via a detour to Jamaica. The itinerary took them from St Lucia to Montego Bay via Fort [Read more]

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“Memoirs of a Kamikaze”

6 September 2022 Lars McKie 0

On 21 January 2022 Japanese veteran fighter pilot Kazuo Odachi added his name to a page from the log book. Odachi was only a teenager when he deployed to the Philippines and Taiwan as a [Read more]

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