
406th NLS
Opman Crew
A picture would be 
most welcome!
We have very little on this crew while at Harrington. We do know they were 
flying combat missions in
early March of 1945 out of Cheddington. The records we do have indicate the 
following:
Os:
Opman,John J.          
Pilot        ASN 0822011
Ballantine,?           
Navigator    ASN ???????
Ouollette,Donald A.J.  Copilot      ASN 0831779
Oyger,?                
Bombardier   ASN ???????
EMs:
Pecjaq,?               
Gunner       
ASN ???????
Calka,?                
Engineer     ASN 
???????
Dzymczak,              
?            ASN
???????
Kaplin,Louis           RO           
ASN
12177527 
Szymczak,Edmund B.     
Gunner       ASN 42027284
ASNs
so-colored for EMs 
link to their NARA Enlistment Record.
Additional Data Sources:
Opman 
Crew Personnel Files
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
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:
"Leaflet Operations during the 2nd WW" by James M. Erdmann
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