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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