Flight Logs - Douglas Hicks

It is unclear why in Hicks' flight logs (courtesy the Hicks family) a page of March 1945 operations appears on the page prior to February, and stranger still that they are crossed out.  There is no record of Hicks having ever flown with Nielson’s crew. 

Log discrepancies were not uncommon, particularly since crew did not bring their logs with them on flights and the information contained within them usually came second or third-hand to whatever administrator was completing them on any given day.  In some cases, log books were completed after-the-fact by airmen taking details from Squadron records which may or may not have been accurate.  It is likely the book was mixed up with a Nielson Crew member as the result of a clerical error.