Picture Details:
Rodman St. Clair
Standing, L-R:
Burton Gross - Bombardier
ASN 0668710 (KIA)
Paul B. Weaver,Jr. - Copilot
ASN 0533393 did not fly with Group
Rodman St.Clair - Pilot
ASN 0494016 Squadron C.O. 1943-1945
Robert W. Martin - Navigator
ASN 0733056 flew with Crance
Kneeling,
L-R:
Hugh D. Jones - Engineer
ASN
14057749 flew with Peavyhouse
Donald Steens - MOS Unknown
ASN Unknown did not fly with Group
Frank Scigliano -
R.O. ASN
17031441 flew with Harrison
Leo P. Babik - Tailgunner
ASN
38057873 flew with Harrison
George E. Larson - Engineer
ASN
16012219 flew with Harrison
Robert Albrecht - R.O.
ASN
16095747 flew with Peavyhouse
EM ASNs so-colored link to their NARA Enlistment Record.
St.Clair's crew are shown above in the USA,summer of 1943. Gross was the second casualty of the Group in the UK, going down with an RAF SOE crew in November of 1943. St.Clair flew with made-up crews for his missions out of Alconbury and Harrington, and flew at least one C-47 mission to Annecy picking up returned airmen from Switzerland late in 1944. St.Clair flew only three times according to the Late Period Log .
In this picture, taken
in the summer of 1943 St.Clair is back row center,tallest.
Above: St.Clair, summer of 1944
Agents Inserted/Attempted:
MR 0393
DZ Plymouth2 (2) Unidentified
Additional Crew Data Sources:
St.Clair
Crew Personnel Files
St.Clair Crews Mission Reports
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)
