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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:
Group-Related Downloads:
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