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Names transcribed from
Special Orders #52,dtd 08Mar45 and
other sources.
The crew
and presumably some passengers departed Station 179 at 1503 hrs on
9Jul45
heading to
Valley,Wales in B24 42-63775
and their ultimate destination - the
Zone of the Interior. The crew appears in the
Late Period Log 18
times.
Os:
Melvin A. Friberg - Pilot
ASN 0829193
Warren S. Leopold - Copilot
ASN 0927721
Robert J. Chouinard - Navigator ASN 02065723
Willie S. Durant - Bombardier ASN
0928410
EMs:
Robert L. Wekseth - Gunner
ASN 6932351
James E. Donnell - R.O.
ASN 18041995
Frank A. Palermo - Engineer
ASN 32938867
Walter N. Waltman - Gunner
ASN 34637023
ASNs so-colored for
EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
Additional Crew Data Sources:
Friberg Crew Personnel Files
Friberg
Crew Mission Reports (partial)
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)
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