36th BS
Wagstad Crew
No picture of the crew has surfaced, the officers of the crew and their companions appear below at a night club in Baltimore,MD during 1943.
Clockwise:
M.
Eleanor Connor
Lorimer Petersen
Isabel Connor
Edward J. Martinez,Jr.
Joseph P. Connor,Jr.
Mary Harris
Gerald Wagstad
Personnel data below transcribed from
Special Orders #118,Topeka,KS,dtd 30Apr43.
Os:
Gerald S. Wagstad - Pilot
ASN 0665744 (KIA)
Lorimer Peterson - Copilot
ASN T-217 *
Henry N. Walsh -
Copilot ASN 0684583 (KIA)
Edward Martinez - Navigator
ASN 0795278 (FOD)
Joseph P. Connor,Jr. - Bombardier ASN 0734420
(KIA)
EMs:
Earl W. Underwood - Engineer
ASN
34201882 (FOD)
Cornelius F. O'Leary - R.O.
ASN
31160055 (FOD)
Jose A. Morales - Engineer
ASN
38123436
Leo E. Roettger - Gunner
ASN 36226475 (FOD)
Frederick N. Wagner - Gunner
ASN
39007470 + (KIA)
Carl A. Weisz -
Gunner ASN 35508721
~
* Dropped prior to UK,replaced by Walsh.
+ Surname in NARA files is incorrectly
spelled.
~ Flew (possibly) only one combat mission
MR
0017.
ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Record.
Below:
Wagstad crew
monument at
Lutz-en-Dunois (Eure-et-Loire),
France.
Below: Earl Underwood
Additional Crew Data Sources:
Wagstad Crew Personnel Cards
Wagstad
Crew Honor Roll Cards
Wagstad
Crew Mission Reports
Wagstad Crew Supporting Documents
Group-Related Downloads:
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to
European Resistance"
Allied Leaflets Index
"Carpetbaggers" by Parnell
"They Flew by Night" editor Robert Fish
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)
