406th BS
Decker Crew
A picture would be much appreciated!
Os:
John
Ceaser - Navigator ASN 0687990
Roland B.
Decker - Pilot ASN
0747227
Kenneth G. Kuntz - Bombardier ASN
0685492
Harry F. Yeomans - Copilot
ASN 0752031
EMs:
Edward F. Guy - Engineer
ASN
13037807
Hjalmaer Heinonen - Engineer
ASN
36409262
David L. Hinson - R.O.
ASN 18127279
John Lapcsik -
Gunner ASN
11101502
ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
An augmentation crew, they arrived in the UK prior to the night of 10/11 April 1944 when they flew their first combat mission as a crew. The officers of the crew began returning to the Zone of the Interior as early as 10Aug44.
Agents
Carried/Inserted:
MR 1383 Part of
OSS OG Percy Red (5)
MR 1453
Part of a Belgian drop to Cimber 1 DZ (3)
Leaflets Carried/Dropped:
ZF9
Additional data sources:
Decker Crew
Personnel Files
Decker Crew Mission Reports
Group-Related Downloads:
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to European
Resistance"
Allied
Leaflets Index
"Carpetbaggers" by Parnell
Carpetbagger C47 Missions
(Jul-Sep 44)
"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:
Group Mission Reports Jan-Sep44
(On disk $12ea - $10ea via Paypal)
"Chronology of SOE Operations with the Resistance In
France During WWII" by
Foot & Boxhall
"Spies,Supplies & Moonlit Skies Vols 1&2" by
Ensminger (On disk $12ea -
$10ea via Paypal)
