406th NLS
Anderson/Nutt
Crew
The Anderson crew are pictured below at Casper,WY on
12Jan45.
Late arrivals, when they showed up at Harrington in March of 1945, Varner and Auira were assigned to other crews and were replaced by Blackard and Roos. Anderson was killed in a takeoff crash of B24 42-51251 on the night of 26/27 April 1945 after which the crew had to fly with a number of other pilots, the last being John Nutt, who flew them home in July of 1945.
Standing,L-R:In all cases here and below ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Record.
The picture below is that of Nutt's 1st crew at Cheddington in August of 1944.
Nutt's 1st crew finished their tour on 1Dec44 and returned to the Zone of
the Interior shortly afterward; Nutt remained in the ETO.
Standing,L-R:
John A. Nutt
- Pilot ASN 0696870
Waltman W. Attrill -
Copilot ASN 0767967
Edwin A.
Bell
- Navigator ASN 0716128
Richard P. Schad
- Bombardier ASN 0762952
Kneeling,L-R:
Wayne F. Welling
- Gunner ASN
33397470
Irving Getzels
- R.O. ASN
39560989
Edward P. Magoon
- Engineer ASN
36455628
Edwin A. Bean
- Engineer ASN
31268418
Samuel L. Emrich
- Gunner ASN
37347522
Walter Frisch
- R.O. ASN 17097527
Nutt's last crew are shown below on 12Jun45 preparing a B-17 for their return to the USA.
Back Row,L-R:
Robert G. Davis
- R.O. ASN
16169610
William L. Blackard,Jr. - Gunner
ASN
37633136
Robert J. Sullivan
- Gunner ASN
11099525
Robert W. Roos
- Gunner ASN 35558611
Harold
F. Wesley,Jr. - Engineer
ASN
13110971
Center:
Albert K. Canfield
- Gunner ASN
13174967
Front Row,L-R:
Melvin H. Davis
- Bombardier ASN 0783316
John A. Nutt - Pilot ASN 0696870
Richard L.
Halle - Copilot
ASN 02061938
Richard C. Klenoski -
Navigator ASN 02074456
Additional Crew Data Sources:
Group-Related Downloads:
406th
NLS Air Crew Card Index
406th NLS Squadron RZI Card File
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to
European Resistance"
Air Power History
Article
Allied Leaflets Index
Aerospace Historian Article
"Carpetbaggers" by Parnell
Cheddington (Station
113)
Night
Leaflet Squadrons Operations reports (Jun44-Jul45)
"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:
"Secret Squadrons of the 8th" by Carty (leaflet
squadron portion only)
"Leaflet Operations
during the 2nd WW" by James M. Erdmann
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