406th NLS
Comin
Crew
A picture would be most appreciated!
Crew members from personnel sheets
on microfilm roll AO606.
An early period crew for the squadron, first mentioned in
the Operations Log on the night of 27/28 September 1944.
Harvey L. Comin, Jr. - Pilot
ASN 0757374
William M. Ball
- Gunner ASN
19122632
Fred C. Issler - Gunner ASN 36644484
Robert T. Payne - R.O. ASN
34473354
Thomas H. Winterman - Gunner ASN
35496315
Other crewmembers are unidentified at present.
ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
Additional data sources:
Comin Crew Personnel files
Comin Crew 3x5 Cards
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)
"Spies,Supplies & Moonlit
Skies Vols 1&2" by Ensminger
(On disk $12ea - $10ea via Paypal)
"Leaflet Operations during the 2nd WW" by James M.
Erdmann