857th BS
George Winburn Crew

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The following transcribed from Special Orders #241,dtd 18Dec44:

Os:
George R.   Winburn        - Pilot        ASN 0830765
Luverne D.  Erickson       - Copilot      ASN 0574528
Charles F.  Girard         - Navigator    ASN 02070214
Robert W.   Billmire       - Bombardier   ASN T-7021

EMs:
Robert  J.  Brick          - Gunner       ASN 37446206
Morris J.   Caudle         - Gunner       ASN 39049392
Thomas A.   Knoll          - Engineer     ASN 33681799
Royal F.    Lackey         - Gunner       ASN 16152694
Vincent A.  Sabbia         - R.O.         ASN 32730364
James A.    Crobar         - Gunner       ASN 32946413

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

A late-period crew, arriving at Harrington on the 18th of December 1944, along with several other new 10-man crews intended for night bombing. From the night of 20/21Feb45 until late April the crew is entered 22 times in the Late Period Log.

Additional Crew Data Sources:
 George Winburn Crew Personnel Files
George Winburn Crew Mission Reports (partial)

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)
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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