857th
BS
Webb Crew
Webb appears first in the Late Period Log as pilot of NS-740 (a Mosquito) on 5Oct44 prior to SO #192 (transcribed below). Baker was killed when the Shaw crew were shot down over Norway, click here for his Honor Roll card.
Os,L-R:
Sam N. Webb
- Pilot ASN 0681257
Edward P. Kolacki - Navigator
ASN 02065214
Kenneth A. Francis - Copilot
ASN T-128556
Lucien G. Petit - Bombardier
ASN T-128665
EMs,L-R:
Charles S. Baker - Gunner
ASN
35848400 (FOD)
John C. Gleeson - Engineer
ASN
19063517
Sigmund E. Grudzinski - Gunner ASN
32938364
John W. Large - Gunner
ASN
17134271
Grover P. Perry,Jr. - Gunner
ASN
35902396
Joseph R. Ricco - R.O.
ASN
32793332
ASNs so-colored for EMs link to their NARA Enlistment Records.
Below: Webb & Kolacki with Mosquito, Spring of 1945.
The crew
arrived from the 70th Replacement Depot
in late October, being assigned to
the 857th BS on
arrival. From the
Late Period Log it doesn't appear
they flew a combat mission until the night of
27/28 December 1944, and then
not again until
21/22 February 1945. Webb then appears only five
more times
in the Ops Log until being assigned to
"Mosquito Transition
Training" at Watton with the
25th BG at the end of March 1945. Webb piloted
Mosquito missions four times in April 1945, before
disappearing from
Harrington records.
Additional Crew Data Sources:
Webb Crew
Personnel Files
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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