Os:
Wilfred B. Boswell
- Pilot ASN 0701875
Richard A. Clarke -
Copilot ASN 0829166
Carl S. Christensen - Navigator
ASN 0717136
Milton L. Jackson -
Bombardier ASN 0717060
EMs:
Lawrence D. Lenahan
- Engineer ASN
39398226
William G Lohrstorfer - R.O.
ASN 36595328
Harold Grissen
- Gunner ASN
36459307
Anthony R. Lamanna -
Gunner ASN
32800456
Oswald Schmidt
- Gunner ASN
19069590
Jean Pratt
- Gunner ASN
19186901
ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
Status: Consolidation crew, completed six daylight bombing missions with North Pickenham daylight 492nd BG before being merged into the 492nd BG at Harrington. On 17 December 1944, the crew boarded B24 42-7563 and departed for Brindisi, Italy with the 859th BS on Detached Service.
Crew Data: In the brief period before Operations ceased at Harrington on 17 Sep '44 the crew flew ten missions, only one an incomplete. On mission #2193, they inserted Jedburgh Team JIM in the Aisne department of France.
Preferred Aircraft: B24H 42-95231
This aircraft was last recorded
in the Harrington Operations Log on 30 Sep '44. Subsequent records do not
show it at Harrington, leaving it's ultimate fate unknown.
Additional crew data sources:
Boswell crew Station 179 MRs
Boswell crew
Personnel files
Group-Related Downloads:
801st/492nd Personnel Mission
Report Index(Jan-Sep44)
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to European
Resistance"
"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)