
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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