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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