406th NLS
Pollard Crew
A picture would be most welcome!
The full crew appear only in Special Orders #83, dtd 14Apr45,wherein they were to deploy to Station 563 (Southport Palace Hotel)for R&R for a period not to exceed 7 days. The orders do not provide the MOS of the crewmembers, though a few have been gained from other documents. The crew first appears in the Late Period Log on the night of 16/17 March '45 and last on 31May45, for a total of 21 entries.
Os:
Wallace M. Pollard
- Pilot ASN 0776027
Cornelius Callaghan,Jr. - Copilot
ASN 0823953
Marsena P. Butts
- Copilot ASN 0928981 Originally
with the Canner crew.
Richard S. Rokicki
- Bombardier ASN 0782962
EMs:
Sargis J. Nathan
- ?
ASN
6908086
Joseph L. Thomas
- ?
ASN
34848097
William H. White
- ?
ASN 36591217
Anthony R. Szeman
- ?
ASN
35555264
Robert J. Morsey
- ?
ASN 33699374
Arthur P. Mc Hugh
- ?
ASN
31138185
ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Record.
Additional Crew Data Sources:
Pollard 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
"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