406th NLS
Coplen
Crew
A picture would be most welcome!
Crew member data from personnel sheets
on microfilm roll AO606.
They make their first entry in the Harrington Operations Log
on the night of 1/2 April 1945 and accomplish four more flights
before
departing for the Zone of the Interior on 9Jul45. Coplen's
3x5 card indicates
he arrived at Cheddington on 1Nov44, if so,
this late-period crew may have
been assembled from remnant members
at Harrington.
Os:
James P. Coplen - Pilot
ASN 0713712
David W. Lykins - Copilot
ASN 0777733
Unknown
- Navigator
Joseph A. Canale
- Bombardier ASN 02063155
EMs:
Raymond J. Ciorra -
Engineer ASN
13011825
Merrille A. Dunn, Jr. - Gunner
ASN 38519422
Carmen R. Famolaro - R.O.
ASN
32668140
Kenneth V. Ingram -
Turret Gunner ASN 37490053
Andrew J. Pramik
- Tail Gunner ASN
15128284
Daniel J. Sullivan - Nose
Gunner ASN 31335444
ASNs
so-colored
for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
Additional crew data sources:
Coplen Crew Personnel files
Coplen Crew 3x5 Cards
Group-Related Downloads:
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