858th BS
Podach Crew

Status:
Not much is known about this crew as 1945 records are sparse. The crew appears only twice in the Late Period Log. Paul Balles has provided the matching names as follows:

Os: Back Row,L-R:
John      Guthrie         - Bombardier
Phil      Podach          - Pilot
Norm      Frey            - Navigator
Ed        Baush           - Copilot        ASN 0943053

EMs: Front Row,L-R:
Bob       Chapman         - Gunner
Bruce     Richardson      - Engineer
Walter W. Burkhart        - Gunner         ASN 13158937
Paul      Balles          - R.O.
Saul      Schloimowitz    - Gunner         ASN 12231087
John A.   Clark           - Gunner         ASN 11119786

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

Additional data sources:
 Podach 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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