Back Row, left to right:
George W. Ambrose - Pilot
0-802693 (KIA)
Peter Roccia - Bombardier 0-679657
(KIA)
Robert H. Redhair - Copilot 0-682897
(KIA)
Front Row, left to right:
Eddy Dwyer - Gunner
39089058 (Orphaned)
George Henderson - Gunner 39255460 (Evader)
Wilford Bollinger - Dispatcher 36350846
Charles M. Wilson - Engineer 13108714
(KIA)
Donald Dubois - Gunner 11106596 (Orphaned
>453rd BG)
James Heddleson - R.O. 15324873 (Evader)
Not pictured:
Arthur Pope - Navigator 0-808135
(KIA)
James Mooney - Gunner 12086824
(POW)
ASNs
so-colored
for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
Incident Aircraft:
B24-D 42-40997 "Worry Bird"
Picture Location: Topeka,KS
Picture Date: December, 1943
Monument: St.Cyr-De-Valorges, France
Status: Augmentation crew, arrived at Alconbury Jan-Feb 1944 period.
Photo Credit: James Heddleson
Errata: Mooney subbed for Bollinger on the night of the crash.
Bollinger was later shot down with the
Schreiner crew over Russia in September of 1944
and survived. Evasion period for Heddleson and Henderson 28Apr-10Aug44.
Additional data
sources:
MACR
4307 file
Ambrose Crew Mission
Reports
Crew NARA Honor Roll Cards
Ambrose
Crew Personnel files
Heddleson Letter to Parnell
Additional
crew-related photos
Universal Downloadable Data Sources:
801st/492nd Personnel Mission Report Index(Jan-Sep44)
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to European Resistance"
"Carpetbaggers" by Parnell*
Carpetbagger C47 Missions
(Jul-Sep 44)
"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)
*
Group Honor Roll
Page
Available on Request:
Group Mission Reports Jan-Sep44 (On disk $12ea - $10ea
via Paypal)
"Secret Squadrons of the 8th" by Carty (leaflet
squadron portion only) *
"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)
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