36th BS
Mead Crew

Shown below: Mead crew of the 22nd Anti-Submarine Squadron. Click here for names matched to faces.

Mead and crew are shown below with a hand-picked crew at Harrington, Station 179.

Back Row, L-R:
Charles G. Shull         - Bombardier     ASN 0725089
Walter L.  Garnett       - Navigator      ASN 0724308
Ernest     Holzworth     - Copilot        ASN 0794497
Benjamin   Mead          - Pilot          ASN 0724634

Front Row, L-R:
Unidentified             - Gunner
Neil G.    Richards      - Gunner         ASN 17024454
William C. Jesperson     - Engineer       ASN 19054277
Joel       Williamson    - R.O.           ASN 38068251

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

Picture Date: Spring 1944

Status: Irregular crew, after the Williams crew went down in late December of 1943 Mead was promoted to a squadron position, limiting his combat missions. Richards and Jesperson, originally members of the Schreiner crew, were transferred to Balchen's unit at Leuchars and rejoined with that crew during the summer of 1944. In September of 1944 they were shot down by Russian AA crews over Murmansk where the crew was seeking safe harbor because of engine troubles. In the incident, only the command pilot was killed, all others eventually being evacuated to Scotland by ship and the RAF. Having some ASW hours, converted to his mission count, allowed him to head back to the ZI following his last combat mission on the night of 8/9 July. Evelyne Clopet was one of two women assigned to Sussex teams who were killed on their mission

Below: Evelyne Clopet

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