406th NLS
Hendrix
Crew
A picture would be most
appreciated!
Os:
Ray L.
Hendrix - Pilot
ASN 0775037
(DNB)
Jerome Pfullmann
- Copilot ASN 0778939
(DNB)
Vincent R. Murphy
- Navigator ASN 02065475
(DNB)
Charles L. Miller
- Bombardier ASN 0782941
(DNB)
EMs:
John T.
Wheatley - R.O.
ASN 35706656
(DNB)
Blythe R. Smyth
- Gunner ASN
13034948
(DNB)*
Franz-Josef R. Weik
- Gunner ASN
32951823
(DNB)**
William K. Lawson
- Gunner ASN 18193116
(DNB)
George W. Hawkes
- Gunner ASN 31417132
(DNB)
Samuel Schaeffer
- Gunner ASN
32916161
(DNB)
*
Smyth is listed as a Pollard crewmember on the
3x5 cards.
**
Weik's names are garbled on his NARA
enlistment record.
ASNs
so-colored
for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment
Records.
Their plane crashed on take-off at Aylesbury killing all aboard. It must have
been an early mission for the crew as none of them had yet been awarded an Air
Medal(5 missions).
Additional Crew Data sources:
Hendrix Crew 3x5 Cards
Hendrix Crew Crash Report
Hendrix
Crew Personnel Files
Hendrix Crew NARA Honor Roll cards
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
