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406th NLS
  
 
Standing, L-R: 
Charles W. Strain    - Gunner        
	ASN 37463557
James K.   Echols    - R.O.          
	ASN 15937537
Ralph W.   Wise      - Engineer      
	ASN 
35491922
Emerson J. Miller    - Gunner        
	ASN 
35732641
LaRue M.   Shipley   - Gunner        
	ASN 
20927789
Kneeling, L-R: 
Carlo      Zuniga    - Bombardier    
	ASN T-124684
Bruce W.P. Edgerton  - Pilot         
	ASN 024090
Martin J.  Katz      - Navigator     
	ASN 02057940
Robert T.  Hensley   - Copilot       
	ASN 0711199
Absent from Picture:
George W.  Knott     - Gunner        
	ASN 
13080523
ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
Photo Credit and Names: Martin Katz
This photo was taken at Cheddington on 7 January 1945. The crew moved with the rest of the squadron to Harrington in mid-March of
    1945, finishing their tour there. Their last operational
    flight is recorded as the night of 15/16 April 1945, flying "42-50483", a B24-J named "Midnite
    Mistress".  Martin Katz reports that most of the crew had 40
    missions by the time operational flights had ceased. The aircraft was
    later used for OSS missions into the fall of 1945. 
Additional Crew Data Sources: 
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	The crew were featured in an 
	
	 
	April 1945 newspaper article.
Edgerton 
Crew Card Files
Edgerton Crew Awards
Edgerton 
Crew Personnel Files
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)
"Leaflet Operations during the 2nd WW" by James M. 
Erdmann