406th BS
Munn Crew
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Os:
Jack H. Munn
- Pilot ASN 074220
William G. Wittman
- Copilot ASN
0749375
Francisco H. Duran
- Navigator ASN 0682159
Wister B. Traynham
- Bombardier ASN 0676606
EMs:
Charles J. Supolik
- Dispatcher ASN
16069031
Clarence H. Brown
- R.O. ASN
34442348
Henry Miller
- Engineer ASN
14078753
Eldon E. Radtke
- Tailgunner ASN
18192601 (WIA)
ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
Originally assigned to the 482nd BG at Alconbury, they were joined to the 406th BS shortly after inception in December of 1943. Toward the end of their tour Radtke was badly wounded on a mission over Belgium, substitute TGs flew with the crew for the rest of June 1944, their last month in action.
Munn flew a second tour during the last part of the war, he appears twenty times in the Late Period Log, though not all were combat missions.Agents inserted/attempted:
Mission 0163 (1) DZ Stationer 54
Unidentified
Additional Crew Data
Sources:
Munn
Crew Personnel Files
Munn Crew Mission
Reports
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)
