The crew are shown below as the 8-man crew who dropped Nancy Wake and John Farmer on the night of 29/30 April 1944. Picture and names courtesy of Harold Van Zyl. All but Clark were pro-rated for their Anti-Submarine time and left Harrington by the end of June, 1944.  Van Zyl put in 25 missions at Harrington.

Standing, L-R:
Harold R.     Van Zyl       - Pilot         ASN 0665743
Clifton G.    Clark         - Copilot       ASN 0683969
Lawrence      Rivkin        - Navigator     ASN 0796602
William E.    Elkouri       - Bombardier    ASN 0733543

Kneeling, L-R:
Udell W.      Olson         - R.O.          ASN 18069815
Harold L.     Qualls        - Engineer      ASN 19079149
John F.       Zsadanyi      - Gunner        ASN 32436546
Henry R.      Hettinger     - Dispatcher    ASN 18071440

Favored Aircraft: 42-40987  Never named, it was an ex-482nd BG plane flown throughout the summer of 1944. It last appeared in the Ops Log on 30Sep44 and was turned in obsolescent on 5Jan45.

Additional Crew Data Sources:
Nancy Wake's obituary
Van Zyl Crew Personnel Files
Van Zyl Crew Mission Reports
SOE Chronology page for Farmer & Wake

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)

Available on Request:
"Nancy Wake" by Braddon
"Carpetbaggers" by Ben Parnell
"They Flew by Night" by Robert Fish
"Nancy Wake - The White Mouse" by Wake
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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