Plotting the significant events related to signers of The Log Book in chronological order.

DateEvent
1943-01-13David Craig, British Merchant Navy joins the SS Dover Hill as third radio officer.
1943-01-27Raymond Glensor, Navigator, RNZAF returns to UK after having escaped occupied France through Spain and Gibraltar.
1943-02-15David Craig, British Merchant Navy, sails with SS Dover Hill on Convoy JW 53 bound for Murmansk, Russia.
1943-02-25David Craig, British Merchant Navy, SS Dover Hill in Convoy JW53 is bombed by Luftwaffe JU-88's causing minimal damage but wounding one gunner.
1943-02-27David Craig, British Merchant Navy, SS Dover Hill, arrives Kola Inlet in Russia with Convoy JW53.
1943-04-04David Craig, British Merchant Navy, SS Dover Hill is attacked by two Luftwaffe JU-88's while anchored in Murmansk, Russia. One bomb hit the ship but fails to explode, burying itself in the ships coal bunker.
1943-04-06David Craig, British Merchant Navy, SS Dover Hill, the unexploded 500kg bomb is finally located and defused by Russian officer Major Pavel Alexeevich Panin.
1943-05-23Sydney "Stevie" Stevens of 57 Squadron RAF flies his first mission as a Lancaster captain on a night raid to Dortmund.
1943-11-01Larry Kirby, USMC, E-Co, 2/9, 3rd MarDiv participates in the landing at Cape Torokina which starts the Bougainville campaign.
1943-11-20Douglas Devaux, USAF, graduates from Flight Radio Operator course at Air Transport Command Transition Training School in Miami, Florida.
1943-12-20Les Rutherford, Bomb Aimer, No. 50 Squadron RAF is blown clear of his Lancaster midair over Germany but parachutes safely.
1943-12-30Lester Schrenk, USAF, B-17 Ball Turret Gunner, 327th BS, 92BG flies his 1st mission and participates in raid "VIII Bomber Command 169" of the oil refinery and port area of Ludwigshafen, Germany.