406th BS
Nicoll Crew
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Names transcribed from Operations
Order #318, issued from Morrison Field,FL dtd 12Dec43.
Os:
William W. Nicoll - Pilot
ASN 0680689 (KIA)
Adolphe W. Kalbfleisch - Copilot
ASN 0748423 (EVR)
William G. Harris - Navigator
ASN 0691999 (KIA)
Thomas F. Davis -
Bombardier ASN 0747648 (KIA)
EMs:
Warren A. Brewer - R.O.
ASN
14126001 (KIA)
Ralph L. Wetzel - Gunner
ASN
35589576 Orphaned
Ralph L. Kittrell - Gunner
ASN
39692464 (KIA)
Joseph E. Porter - Gunner
ASN
35566756 (EVR)
Edward A. Troutman - Gunner
ASN
35352584 Orphaned
Richard C. Bindel - Gunner
ASN 37233213 (KIA)
ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Record.
One of the shortest combat careers at Harrington, going down on their first flight as a crew on the night of 5/6 April 1944. They ferried B24J 42-99981 to the UK taking the southern route, spent some time at an unknown CCRC, and probably reported in sometime in February or early March of 1944. Kalbfleisch and Porter survived the downing, and successfully evaded until they were returned to the UK in August of 1944. Wetzel and Troutman were orphaned.
Additional Crew Data Sources:
Nicoll Crew
Personnel Files
Nicoll
Crew Mission Report
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)
