857th BS
Jones Crew
857th BS
Jones Crew
A picture would be most appreciated!
Data transcribed
from Special Orders #39, Station
179, dtd 21Feb45
Os:
Lloyd G. Jones
- Pilot ASN 02062510
Donald E. Bennett - Copilot
ASN 0837882
Daniel E. Wilcher - Navigator
ASN 02072933
Vernon E. Key - Bombardier
ASN T-131437
EMs:
Frank Bolt
- Gunner ASN 14181871
Jack E. Kister - Gunner
ASN
13158776
Dayle G. Klever - Gunner
ASN
16195285
Howard M. Pollari - Engineer
ASN 36830805
Richard A. Stoeber - Gunner
ASN
12228830
Paul C. Werner - R.O.
ASN
31423147
ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
The crew appears in the Operations Log seven times between 1 Apr '45 and 9 Jul '45. the Association is currently in the process of acquiring combat mission reports for the Jan-Jul '45 and will have them available here as soon as possible.
Additional Sources:
Jones Crew
Personnel files
Group-Related Downloads:
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to European
Resistance"
Allied
Leaflets Index
"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)