
856th BS
Junk Crew
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Status:
To date (111028) this crew is known only from
Special Orders #192, dtd 
25Oct44 (missing the last page). They were placed on DS to Station 376 
(Watton)along with a number of other crews in late September of 1944 through 
February of 1945. 
Os:
Virgil S.    Junk        
- Pilot           ASN 0512489
Milton R.    Madsen      - Copilot         
ASN 0778522
Lewis J.     Schumacher  - Navigator       
ASN 02065633
EMs:
Finus A.     
Hodges      - R.O.            
ASN 38069874
Victor J.    Acampa      - Engineer        
ASN 32896248
Lawrence H.  Blum        - Gunner          
ASN 38545050
Stanley T.E. Foletta     - Gunner          
ASN 39013076
Glen A.      Griffiths   - Gunner          
ASN 37358238
Albert J.    Grosel      - Gunner          
ASN 36875208
ASNs
so-colored
for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
Downloadable Data Sources:
Junk Crew Personnel files
"Carpetbaggers" by Parnell
"They Flew by Night" editor Robert Fish
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