36th BS
McKee Crew

 The crew are shown below at Topeka,KS in the winter of 1943.

The crew are pictured below at Harrington, spring of 1944.
Back Row,L-R: 
 William G. McKee              - Pilot            ASN 0741921
Norman O.  Stoll              - Navigator        ASN 0690500
Robert R.  France             - Bombardier       ASN 0688334
Everett E. Harwell            - Copilot          ASN 0747406

Front Row,L-R:
 Charles D. Fairbanks          - Tailgunner       ASN 15097490
Joe D.     Saylor             - Dispatcher       ASN 18160982
Richard W. Fogelsonger        - R.O.             ASN 13157397
Edd H.     Cuplin             - Engineer         ASN 37267539

Not shown: 
 Pete G.    Pasvantis          - Gunner           ASN 20415465 (Orphaned) 
William G. Dickinson          - Gunner           ASN 12030573 (Orphaned) *

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

* NARA record shows a surname of "Dickison".
Status: Augmentation crew, arriving at Alconbury in mid-December 1943. Pasvantis and Dickinson were probably left with the 482nd BG, the first BG the crew was assigned to. Neither shows up in further orders at Alconbury through the middle of February 1944. McKee returned to Harrington in 1945 for a second tour, completing an additional 14 missions.

 First Mission as a Crew: 5 Feb 44 

Combat Period: Jan-Jul 1944 (30 mission tour)

Close Calls:  
Several missions encountered enemy aircraft but the crew evaded successfully. On mission #649, 4/5 June '44, #2 engine was lost approaching the DZ but the mission continued. 

Agents attempted/Delivered:
MR 158  DZ Dick 61         (1) No Drop
MR 373  DZ Stockbroker 5B  (2) Ernst F. Floege & Andre Bouchardon
MR 618  DZ Donald 5        (3) SUSSEX Team Foudre - Jacques Leroyer & Jacques Collard (one agent unidentified)

  Left: OSS agent Ernst F. Floege, ASN 0-2044516
  From NARA OSS London Hq microfilm roll #7

  Additional Crew Data Sources:
  McKee Crew Personnel Files
  McKee Crew Mission Reports

  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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