406th/858th/859th BSs
McCarthy Crew

A picture would be most appreciated!

Following data transcribed from Special Orders #229, dtd 05Dec44.

Officers:
Thomas O.  McCarthy     - Pilot        ASN 0705732
Rosslyn C. Anderson     - Copilot      ASN 0770922
Robert E.  Beach        - Navigator    ASN 0723270
Armando    Carlino      - Bombardier   ASN 0716712

Enlisted:

Charles S. Jones        - Gunner       ASN 37533432     
Mack H.    Dias         - R.O.         ASN
33761086
James B.   Tate         - Engineer     ASN 38437770
Robert J.  Webber       - Gunner       ASN 37486739

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

Crew Background: No picture of the crew has been found, and no orders show the crew as arriving at Harrington, their first appearance occuring in the reorganization orders of 13 August 1944. However, their first mission as a crew took place on the night of 17/18 August 1944, and from that it can be assumed that they probably arrived at Station 179 sometime in July of that year. Jones, the Dispatcher, was sent to "area H", i.e., Dispatcher training, for a week in August. After "spy and supply" operations ceased in mid-September '44 McCarthy's short crew flew six gas-haul missions.

The crew were transferred to the 859th BS and went with that squadron to Italy in December of 1944. They were shot down over Austria in April of 1945 - the details were included in the 859th BS history, but at the time it was not known if any had survived, however all did.

Additional Crew Data sources:
McCarthy Crew Personnel Files
McCarthy Crew Mission Reports

Group-Related Download
s:
"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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