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]
Like an iceberg the majority story of Conrad F. Castillo was mostly hidden out of sight. I met Jeff Mossinghoff in one of the numerous WWII orientated groups available on Facebook. His post with a [Read more]
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]
Followers of TLBP know our success relies on a global network of facilitators who collect one or sometimes (many) more signatures. The growing list of volunteers includes several accomplished authors. Most recently Mr. Damien Lewis [Read more]
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]
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]
“Per ardua ad astra” is a Latin phrase meaning “through adversity to the stars”. Wikipedia says it was the Royal Canadian Air Force’s motto until 1968, when it was changed to “sic itur ad astra”, [Read more]
Shortly after 8am in the morning of 18 April 1942 all 16 of Jimmy Doolittle’s B-25 Mitchell bombers successfully take off from the carrier deck of USS Hornet (CV-8). Due to the risk of being [Read more]
At present the Log Book is with Nick’s sister Simonne at the Rockville Hub awaiting its next appointment. On 22 March the book was treated with an excursion paying respect at the Arlington National Cemetery [Read more]
Esmond Farfan, distinguished Trinidad WWII veteran pilot and author of “Five Years in WWII” passed away, aged 99, on 10 March. He was in fact brought to my attention years earlier but his physical condition [Read more]
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