36th BS
Carpenter Crew
One of the first crews to be lost, on the night of 3/4 March 1944.
Back Row,L-R:
Unidentified
Lonnie Hammond Jr.
- Navigator ASN 0800715 (KIA)
Unknown person
Clarence L. Johnson
- Engineer ASN
38119788 (POW)
Wade A. Carpenter
- Pilot ASN 0533302 (POW)
Unknown person
Front Row,L-R:
Eden C. Burris,Jr. - R.O. ASN
38130795 (POW)
Unknown person
Bernard M. Eshleman - Copilot ASN 0886274 (POW)
Edwin G. Herdman - Dispatcher ASN
35275733 (POW)
Not shown:
John W. Dudley
- Gunner ASN
33529998 (Evader/POW)
Glenn C. Nesbitt
- Navigator ASN 0732647 (POW)
William D. Rees
- Bombardier ASN 0679281 (KIA)
ASNs
so-colored
for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment
Records.
Picture Location:
East Coast Anti-Submarine Group
Picture Date:
Summer 1943
Monument: Humbercourt (Somme), France
Status: Original crew excepting Nesbitt who was a passenger from the 406th BS, a Navigator by training.
MACR 3435
Honor
Roll Cards Hammond
Rees
Photo Credit: Clarence Johnson
Errata: Dudley evaded 4Mar-Jun? 1944 with the help of the Bordeaux-Loupiac escape network before being captured and interned in Stalag Luft IV, where most of his fellow crewmembers had been since March of 1944. Eshleman was interned in Stalag Luft I. Rees is the only Carpetbagger who died in captivity during WWII - his legs were amputated after being taken to a military hospital and he died of shock the following day. Johnson's father accepted his Air Medal while he was still a POW - Pictures Here.
Incident Aircraft:
B24-D 42-63789
Group-Related Downloads:
One of the first Carpetbagger aircraft, received from BAD 1 on 17 Nov 1943, a former 479th ASW craft.
Additional Crew Data:
Carpenter Crew Personnel
Cards
Barbed Wire Interlude
(POWs at Barth)
801st/492nd Personnel Mission
Report Index(Jan-Sep44)
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to European
Resistance"
"Carpetbaggers" by Parnell
"They Flew by
Night" editor Robert Fish
Serial
Number Index of B24s
Station 179 Operations Log (handwritten
Apr44-Jul45)
Available on Request:
Group Mission Reports Jan-Sep44
(On disk $12ea - $10ea via Paypal)
"Spies,Supplies & Moonlit
Skies Vols 1&2" by Ensminger
(On disk $12ea - $10ea via Paypal)
