492nd BG
Shook Crew
The crew were assembled some time in June of 1945 as a "Home
Run" crew and subsequently were transferred to the 363rd Tactical Group at the
(Continental) airfield Y-80. They appear only once in the
Late Period Log, on 12May45. Whether the crew of
that day consisted of 6,8 or 10 men is not known.
Data below transcribed from SO185,1st Air Division,Special
Orders #185,dtd 4Jul45.
Os:
Harry A. Shook
- Pilot ASN 02067369
Charles R. Huckleberry - Copilot
ASN T-66859
Kenneth A. William - Navigator
ASN T-138366
EMs:
Gerard E. Clougherty - R.O.
ASN
31296284
Loren J. Lee
- Engineer ASN 36830156
William F. Morton,Jr. - Gunner
ASN 39920619
EM ASNs
so-colored
link to their NARA Enlistment Record.
Additional Crew Data
Sources:
Shook
Crew Personnel Files
Group-Related Downloads:
"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)
