406th/858th BSs
Hasart Crew
A
better picture would be most appreciated!
Arriving at
Harrington on 2Jun44 as a replacement crew for the 406th BS, they
were a ten-man crew quickly reduced to eight but we know not who the
orphans were due to the very bad condition of the microfilm for that
day. They probably went through the same Operational Training Unit (OTU)
experiences as did the 850th BS. Their first mission as a crew was only
a partial success because the load was released half a mile in front of
the DZ. Through the end of September 1944 they flew twenty missions
before the Group entered the "doldrums" of that autumn. Counting
gas-haul missions, they appear in the Late Period Log ten times. Their last
mission as a crew occured on 5 Jan 1945.
Standing,L-R:
Paul R.
Johnson - Navigator
Neil W.
Glover - Bombardier ASN 0706844
Louis W. Tomayko
- Copilot ASN 0821112
William R. McKnight
- Engineer
Raymond J. Sinnott
- Gunner ASN
12089827 (
Kneeling,L-R:
Edwin G. Hasart
- Pilot ASN 0693978
Louis P. Howe
- R.O. ASN 12028581
William W. Carter
- Tailgunner ASN 19125014
William J. Vogel
- Dispatcher ASN 32771277
Names and picture provided by Bill McKnight.
Preferred Aircraft:
B24D 42-40985 "Georgia
Peach"
The plane
was badly shot up on the eve of D-Day with Munn the pilot (Radtke a
Purple Heart) but was returned from Burtonwood by early July and
continued to fly until January of 1945 when it was declared obsolescent.
Agents Carried/Inserted:
MR 1443
DZ Frederick 18
04/05 Aug
(4) Part of
IAM Aloes
MR 1581
DZ Pimento 130
11/12 Aug
(1)
Unidentified
MR 1732
DZ Bob 167
25/26 Aug
(3)
Jedburgh Team Archibald
MR 1979
DZ Marc 19
07/08 Sep
(1) Unidentified
Additional Crew Data
Sources:
Hasart Crew
Personnel Files
Additional Crewmember Photos
Hasart Crew Mission Reports
Group-Related Downloads:
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to European
Resistance"
Allied
Leaflets Index
"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)
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)
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