406th NLS
Pardue Crew
 

The crew became operational at Cheddington on 28 Feb 1945. The low quality of the picture begs to be enhanced by a scan of the original, it is from microfilm roll AO606. Members of the crew are known from the picture, but are not matched to faces or provided with MOS information for the EMs in the following:

Os:
Thomas W.     Pardue     - Pilot             ASN 0718736   
Robert W.     Huntley    - Copilot           ASN 0833750   
Norman B.     Anderson   - Navigator         ASN 02072614
Frederick L.  Brusher    - Bombardier        ASN 0785588

EMs:
Marvin R.     Wallace    -                   ASN 15329252
Francis E.    Shea,Jr.   -                   ASN 11053526
Richard N.    Delay      -                   ASN 15095773
John P.       Robertson  -                   ASN 42003793
Jesse H.      Tate       - Gunner            ASN 14148396

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

First appearance in the Late Period Log: Night of 16/17 Mar 1945
Last  appearance in the Late Period Log: 08 July 1945

Additional Data Sources:
Pardue 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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