406th NLS
Heusser Crew

Picture scanned from Pat Carty's "Secret Squadrons of the 8th".
Names transcribed from the same source.

Standing, L-R:
Heusser                   - Pilot         ASN ?
William F. Taylor,Jr.     - Gunner        ASN 33737454
Earl A.    Emerick        - R.O.          ASN 38395849
Frank T.   Lewis          - Copilot       ASN 0818172
Herbert F. Bobinger       - Gunner        ASN 32863741


Kneeling, L-R:
Dean H.    McConn         - Navigator     ASN 0708306
Walter F.  Rogells        - Gunner        ASN 14044942
Raymond J. Sefrna         - Bombardier    ASN 0757045
Edward L.  Stearns        - Engineer      ASN 36564033
Joe W.     Roden          - Gunner        ASN 14160357


ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.

Status:
It is not at all certain if this was a regular crew. Sefrna,Bobinger,Emerick,Roden,
Rogells,Stearns and Taylor are listed as crew for Ficker and no record for Heusser as pilot
has been found.


Additional Crew Data Sources:
Heusser Crew Personnel Files

Heusser Crew 3x5 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

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