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406th NLS
Edgerton Crew

 


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.

The crew were featured in an April 1945 newspaper article.

Additional Crew Data Sources:
Edgerton Crew Card Files
Edgerton Crew Awards
Edgerton Crew Personnel Files

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)
"Leaflet Operations during the 2nd WW" by James M. Erdmann

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