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)
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