Originally Posted by
Hipper
The RAF Museum have a random collection of Flying Logs.
Indeed with the agreement of my mother I gave them my father's one to them.
Yes, I believe they have a very good collection of logbooks now at the RAF Museum and don’t particularly want anything new, unless it’s of special interest, In the sixties a lot of logbooks relating to aircrew killed in action were simply burnt and a huge number disposed of this way, so many of them haven’t survived despite the numbers of pilots who flew operationally. I guess with nearly 60,000 casualties from Bomber Command alone, there were sadly a lot of those logbooks to burn. Plus, many of them, like your fathers, stayed with the family and it’s rare to see a ‘good’ one make the light of day onto the open market. I made contact with a very well know aviation historian who interviewed many of the Luftwaffe pilots still alive in the 80s and he was given a huge amount of what is now priceless material.....as their families didn’t want anything to do with that period in German history.