406th NLS
Wilkes Crew
Names are span class="auto-style21"NOT matched to faces.
Os:
Milton D. Wilkes
- pilot ASN 0548807
William D. Pickhardt - Copilot
ASN 0693402
Martin J. Canty -
Navigator ASN T-132848
Maurice W. Johnson - Bombardier
ASN 02069680
EMs:
Joseph Pospisil -
Gunner ASN 32988943
Frank R. Vickery,Jr. - Gunner
ASN 31380536
Clifford E. Lewis - Gunner
ASN 33674186
Calvin L. Birtcher - Gunner
ASN 35762863
Edward T. Javitt - Gunner
ASN 33609062
Ralph C. Hobson -
Gunner ASN 36467294
ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
Assignments for R.O. and Engineer not certain. The crew became operational on 25Feb45.
Additional Crew Data Sources:
Wilkes 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