856th BS
Foley Crew
A picture would be most appreciated!
Names transcribed from Special Orders #44 dtd 26Feb45.
Os:
John K. Foley
- Pilot ASN 02058150
James C.
Grossman,Jr. - Copilot ASN
02067618
James E. Heasley
- Navigator ASN T-??5746
Max N. McGraw
- Bombardier ASN
T-?29635
The ASNs of Heasley and McGraw are obscured on the microfilm frame, better copy wanted.
The crew arrived at Harrington on 26 February 1945. The Operations Log shows seventeen flights for the crew between late March 1945 and their departure for the Zone of the Interior on 9 July 1945.
Additional Data Sources:
Foley Crew Personnel Files
Group-Related Downloads:
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to European
Resistance"
Allied
Leaflets Index
"Carpetbaggers" by Parnell
"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)