ISTR the LB-30s (taken over from a British order) were the first Liberators in the Pacific, so LB-30 may well have been the first name he was exposed to.
It's how I found out about that particular designation.
I hope at some point to transcribe the logs, because they're neat and fragile (and kept in several different hands: my father recognizes his uncle's, which is a nice all-caps engineer's print, but some of his co-pilots could really scrawl), but mostly what I was doing last night was recording the major routes and dates and plotting them against the timeline of the war. He seems to have been part of the buildup to/fortification after some major battles. And in between just a lot of transport and supply.
I may also ask if you recognize a couple of the place-names we haven't been able to identify. One sure looks like a three-letter airport code, but if so, it's either changed or ceased to exist since the war.
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It's how I found out about that particular designation.
I hope at some point to transcribe the logs, because they're neat and fragile (and kept in several different hands: my father recognizes his uncle's, which is a nice all-caps engineer's print, but some of his co-pilots could really scrawl), but mostly what I was doing last night was recording the major routes and dates and plotting them against the timeline of the war. He seems to have been part of the buildup to/fortification after some major battles. And in between just a lot of transport and supply.
I may also ask if you recognize a couple of the place-names we haven't been able to identify. One sure looks like a three-letter airport code, but if so, it's either changed or ceased to exist since the war.