858th BS
Dewitt Crew

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Status: To date (110528) this crew is known only from Special Orders #188, dtd 24OCt44. They were placed on DS to Station 376 (Watton)along with the Long crew. The crew was missing one officer, position uncertain.

Os:

Seller  R.  Dewitt       - Pilot         0495074
Euson   M.  Wood         - Copilot       0825049
William S.  Joyce,Jr.    - Navigator     0503378   

EMs:
Rudy        Berger       - R.O.          32677837
Charles D.  Adams,Jr.    - Engineer      34765198
Hubert  E.  Neiberger    - Gunner        37133355
John    J.  Pazderski    - Engineer      12075458
Alfred  M.  Eckert       - Gunner        31440117
Floyd   C.  Nielson      - Gunner        37667024

ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.

Additional Crew Data Sources:
Dewitt Crew Personnel Files


Group-Related Downloads: 801st
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:
"Spies,Supplies & Moonlit Skies Vols 1&2" by Ensminger (On disk $12ea - $10ea via Paypal)

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