857th BS
Powers Crew

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Crew data extracted from Special Orders #120,dtd 16Aug44.

Os:
Harold F.    Powers        - Pilot        ASN 0692815
Charles L.   Bunnell       - Copilot      ASN 0699356
Willie D.    Sparks        - Navigator    ASN 0704571
Miles        Schaus        - Bombardier   ASN 0694478

EMs:
Jack W.      Mondiek       - Engineer     ASN 15066247
Charles H.   Wengel        - Engineer     ASN 11091683
Joseph D.    OBrien        - Engineer     ASN 17051963
Sam H.       Burris        - Engineer     ASN 38453019
Frank J.     Miller        - Engineer     ASN 18098139
Frederick A. Britt         - Gunner       ASN 19073250

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

They managed six Carpetbagger combat missions and seven gas-haul missions. Wengel and Miller were apparently dropped from the crew, as their names do not appear in the mission reports of the period.
Their last appearance in the Late Period Log occurred on 30Sep44.

Additional data sources:
Powers Crew personnel files
Powers Crew Mission Reports

Group-Related Downloads:
"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)

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