858th BS
Long Crew

Status: To date (110528) this crew is known only from Special Orders #188, dtd 24OCt44. They were placed on DS to Station 376 (Watton)along with the Dewitt crew. The crew was missing one officer, position uncertain.

Os:
Robert J. Long        - Pilot       ASN 0705032
Jerry M.  Roberts     - Copilot     ASN 0722219
Leon J.   Ricardi     - Navigator   ASN 02056472
  
EMs:
 Joe B.    Fleming     - R.O.        ASN 37205559
Thomas J. Egan,Jr.    - Gunner      ASN 12120895
Robert A. Eldridge    - Engineer    ASN 32953109
Ivan D.   Shaw        - Gunner      ASN 37344886
John T.   Siner       - Gunner      ASN 35731511
Cecil C.  Smith       - Gunner      ASN 34854532

 ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.

Additional Data Sources:
 Long Crew Personnel Files

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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