406th NLS
Chambers
Crew
The crew is pictured above at Charleston AFB, SC prior to
POM, names have not been matched to faces or provided.
Photos scanned from 'Secret Squadrons of the 8th'
Above the crew are pictured in the UK, March of 1945. Walter Longanecker provided the names as follows:
Standing,L-R:
Eugene Chambers - Pilot
ASN 0718865
Walter R. Longanecker - Copilot
ASN 0777730
Donald Van Heest - Navigator
ASN 02009048
James E. Kennedy - Bombardier
ASN 02009064
Kneeling,L-R:
Additional crew data sources:
Group-Related Downloads:
Charles A. Higgs - R.O.
ASN
35091091
Howard Rackett
- Engineer ASN 06700292
Richard A. Dunham - Gunner
ASN
35223980
Donald A. Slumpff
- Gunner ASN 36887241
James Hoerstman - Gunner
ASN 35903213
James Pocsatko - TG
ASN
33715486
ASNs
so-colored
for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
Chambers Crew Personnel files
Chambers Crew 3x5 Cards
406th NLS Air
Crew Card Index
406th
NLS Squadron RZI Card File
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to European
Resistance"
Air Power History Article
Allied Leaflets Index
Aerospace
Historian Article
"Carpetbaggers" by Parnell
Cheddington(Station
113)
Night Leaflet
Squadrons Operations reports
(Jun44-Jul45)
"They
Flew by Night" editor Robert Fish
Serial Number Index of B24s
Station 179 Operations Log (handwritten
Apr44-Jul45)
Station 179 Operations Log
(transcribed Sep44-Jul45)
Available on Request:
"Secret Squadrons of
the 8th" by Carty (leaflet squadron
portion only)
"Spies,Supplies & Moonlit
Skies Vols 1&2" by Ensminger
(On disk $12ea - $10ea via Paypal)
"Leaflet Operations during the 2nd WW" by James
M. Erdmann
