406th NLS
Ogden Crew
A picture would be
most welcome!
The crew were late arrivals at Harrington, with their first mission flown on
12May45. Completing nine missions and then selected for transfer to the Office
of Strategic Services in a letter to
the C.O. of station 179. Ogden's crew had been reduced from their leaflet
squadron strength of ten.
Os:
Robert B. Ogden
- Pilot ASN 02064988
James T. Farnkopf - Copilot
ASN 02067831
Jack A. Ring
- Navigator ASN T-135808
EMs:
Theodore E. Oleson - R.O.
ASN
39340096
John C. Nixon
- Engineer ASN
33733771
Victor Soules
- Gunner ASN 36969790
However, in
Special Orders 185, issued
from Hq 1st Air Division, Newton Cowdray replaced Farnkopf and the crew were
transferred to the 363rd Tactical Recon Unit at Station Y-80 on the Continent.
NLS crewmen:
Newton E. Cowdray -
Copilot ASN 0730062
Roger L. Foust -
Bombardier ASN 0788022
ASNs
so-colored for EMs
link to their NARA Enlistment Record.
Additional Data Sources:
Ogden
Crew Personnel Files
Group-Related Downloads:
406th
NLS Air Crew Card Index
406th NLS Squadron RZI
Card File
AAFRH-21 "AAF Aid to
European Resistance"
Air Power History
Article
Allied Leaflets Index
Aerospace Historian Article
"Carpetbaggers" by Parnell
Cheddington (Station
113)
Night
Leaflet Squadrons Operations reports (Jun44-Jul45)
"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:
"Secret Squadrons of the 8th" by Carty (leaflet
squadron portion only)
"Leaflet Operations during the 2nd WW" by James M. Erdmann
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