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Navy logbook that recounted Pearl Harbor recovered after 84 years
« on: August 18, 2025, 01:56:22 pm »
Navy logbook that recounted Pearl Harbor recovered after 84 years
By Claire Barrett
 Aug 18, 2025, 11:32 AM
 

After more than 80 years, an old logbook containing the initial descriptions of U.S. vessels after the Japanese attack on Navy Yard Pearl Harbor in 1941 was recovered, the National Archives recently announced. The logbook covers the 16 months before and after the attack that was the catalyst for the U.S. entry into World War II.


Its whereabouts can be traced back to the moment it was plucked from a trash bin in the 1970s at the old Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California, by Oretta Kanady, The Washington Post first reported.

In an interview with the Post, Kanady’s son, Michael William Bonds, said she found it in the bin while working as a civilian employee and thought it looked interesting. She asked if she could have it, and it remained in her possession until her death in 2000. Bonds then inherited it.

https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/08/18/navy-logbook-that-recounted-pearl-harbor-recovered-after-84-years/
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Re: Navy logbook that recounted Pearl Harbor recovered after 84 years
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2025, 02:45:56 pm »
Wow.
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Re: Navy logbook that recounted Pearl Harbor recovered after 84 years
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2025, 02:53:21 pm »
Her mom found it in a trash bin?  Nice...   :nono:
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Re: Navy logbook that recounted Pearl Harbor recovered after 84 years
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2025, 03:21:27 pm »
Quote from: Timber Rattler on August 18, 2025, 02:53:21 pm
Her mom found it in a trash bin?  Nice...   :nono:
You never know what you will find dumpster diving. :whistle:
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Re: Navy logbook that recounted Pearl Harbor recovered after 84 years
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2025, 03:51:34 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on August 18, 2025, 03:21:27 pm
You never know what you will find dumpster diving. :whistle:

Makes you pause at what's been lost to the dumpster.
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Re: Navy logbook that recounted Pearl Harbor recovered after 84 years
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2025, 04:38:28 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on August 18, 2025, 03:51:34 pm
Makes you pause at what's been lost to the dumpster.


It sure does, doesn't it?
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Re: Navy logbook that recounted Pearl Harbor recovered after 84 years
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2025, 05:17:47 pm »
Quote from: Free Vulcan on August 18, 2025, 03:51:34 pm
Makes you pause at what's been lost to the dumpster.
Well, a neighbor passed, and his kids came and cleaned his house out. The dumpster was full of placques and awards he'd won, and all sorts of stuff his kids just didn't see any use for. I dove in, not for the awards, though that put those in perspective for me, but for the other stuff, and even found an envelope with $35 in cash.  :shrug:

I have long been one to not let good stuff go to waste, and yielded to temptation rather than let that happen.

I had a friend who would go to 'garbage sales', where he'd take the weekend garage sale list and check the dumpsters behind the places where the sales had been for stuff that didn't sell and got tossed...
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