
36th/856th
Lemke 
Crew
The crew are shown below prior to overseas departure.
Back Row,L-R:
Bradley,Bofink,Salmons,Lemke
Front Row,L-R:
Elmore,Cazzell,Albright,Olsen,Koliada,Johnston

The crew are shown below at Harrington in the summer of 1944.

Standing,L-R:
Daniel 
A.    Bradley        - 
Bombardier      ASN 0762896
Frederick C. Bofink         - Copilot         
ASN 0822921 
 (DNB)
Frederick    Lemke          
- Pilot           ASN 0696381
 (DNB)
Henry E.     Salmons        
- Navigator       ASN 0717148 
 (DNB)
Front row,L-R:
Leslie C.    Cazzell        - Engineer        
ASN
38380728
(DNB)
James K.W.   Albright       - Dispatcher      
ASN
33669701
(DNB)
Johnn        Koliada        - Gunner          
ASN
31332341
(DNB)
Gordon W.    Elmore         
- R.O.            ASN
16113201
(DNB)
Not pictured:
		Garrett C.   Parnell,Jr.    - Gunner          
ASN
38341096 (DNB)
ASNs
so-colored
for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment 
Records.
The crew arrived at Harrington in mid-June '44 at the earliest, and flew 
		only 3 combat missions in July of 1944. By close of Carpetbagger operations on 17 September '44 they had 17 combat missions 
and 8 gas-haul missions and were put 
		on loan to Cheddington, flying with the 406th Night Leaflet Squadron.On the night of 4/5 September 1944 the crew delivered a 
three-man team to the MARC-19 DZ, the agents have not 
yet been identified.
Crashes on 
		British soil were usually classified as non-combat flights, thus the men 
		killed were classified as "Died Non-Battle"(DNB) by the World War II Honor 
		Roll administrators. Further details are available on thee
Honor Roll 
page of the web site. Briefly, the crew returned from 
		their eighth leaflet mission but Cheddington was socked in and they were 
diverted to Oulton. In the afternoon takeoff to return to Cheddington, the plane 
		smacked a tree with one wing, and crashed and burned in a woods before 
		making it back to the base runway.
Group-Related Downloads:
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to European 
Resistance"
Allied 
Leaflets Index
"Carpetbaggers" by Parnell
"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:
Group Mission Reports Jan-Sep44 
(On 
disk $12ea - $10ea via Paypal)
"Chronology of SOE Operations with the Resistance In 
France During WWII" by 
Foot & Boxhall
"Spies,Supplies & Moonlit Skies Vols 1&2" by 
Ensminger (On disk $12ea - 
$10ea via Paypal)
Redirect to: Crews Main Agents Gas Hauls Honor Roll