Plotting the significant events related to signers of The Log Book in chronological order.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1942-02-28 | Frank McGovern, Gunner, RAN, on board HMAS Perth(D29) is engaged in battle with IJN forces in the Battle of Sunda Strait. |
| 1942-03-01 | Frank McGovern, Gunner, RAN, on board HMAS Perth (D29) is hit by two IJN torpedoes in the Battle of Sunda Strait causing her to capsize and sink at 00:25. McGovern is one of 318 survivors, soon to be POWs, from the sinking. |
| 1942-03-10 | Catherine Martindale née Titley, 5 year old civilian passenger onboard RMS Lady Nelson, is torpedoed and sunk by U-161 while alongside Castries, St Lucia. |
| 1942-04-18 | Richard "Dick" Cole, Pilot, USAF co-pilot of Lt. Col Jimmy Doolittle takes of from USS Hornet (CV-8) in a B-25 bomber #40-2344 to bomb Tokyo in what today is know as the "Doolittle Raid". |
| 1942-05-31 | John "Jo" Lancaster, DFC, CEng, FRAeS, Royal Air Force, pilots Wellington bomber S9932 on the first of three "thousand-bomber raids", target for the raid was Cologne, Germany. |
| 1942-06-02 | John "Jo" Lancaster, DFC, CEng, FRAeS, Royal Air Force, pilots Wellington bomber S9932 on the second of three "thousand-bomber raid", this time targeting Essen, Germany. |
| 1942-08-21 | Arthur Pendleton of CoH 2bn 1st Marine Regiment participates in the Battle of Alligator Creek, Guadalcanal. |
| 1942-09-16 | Raymond Glensor, 142 Squadron RAF, Navigator, RNZAF, bails out over occupied France from Wellington bomber DF550 having been engaged and hit by night fighters and Flak, entire crew of five survives. |
| 1942-10-13 | Ervin Wendt of VT-8, Cactus Air Force, is injured while attacking Japanese positions on Guadalcanal in a "Frankenplane" TBM-1 Avenger. |