858th BS
Montgomery Crew

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The crew is known on-base only from two entries in the Ops Log in May of 1945, and two sets of orders, that of their departing the US and their return to the US. Names below from their earliest set of orders,from the US.

Aircraft:
To the UK - B24 44-51078
To the US - B24 41-28700

Os:
William T.   Montgomery,Jr. - Pilot        ASN 02067323
Frederick J. Engelbrecht    - Copilot      ASN T-66386
George W.M.  Delnick        - Navigator    ASN T-138371
John E.      McDevitt       - Bombardier   ASN 02072320

EMs:
James M.   Oaks             - Engineer     ASN 12205238
John J.    Hogan            - R.O.         ASN 31348602
Harold S.  Wurm,Jr.         - Gunner       ASN 11107054
Donald M.  Davenport        - Gunner       ASN 6939097
Charles F. Ahrens           - Gunner       ASN 15128434
Peter K.   Gould            - Gunner       ASN 14157667 

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

Additional Crew Data sources:
 Montgomery 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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