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Pathfinders - Plane #4 (Utah Beach)

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TEAM "C" was scheduled to drop on DZ C at 0025 at Point 399928. Actual drop was made at 394-929 for one stick (Lt. Kessler, Stick 1 506th) and at 406-918 with remaining Stick, Lt. Faith, Stick 3, 501st Parachute Infantry. Base Stick, Stick 2, 506th, Lt. Rothwell Jumpmaster was forced down in the channel, time, place and cause unknown but reports have been received to the effect that the entire plane load was safely returned to England after going down.

(Source: Report of D-Day Pathfinders activities - 1 July 1944)

Pathfinders Team
First Lieutenant Gordon O. Rothwell  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
First Sergeant Charles R. Malley  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, F Co
Corporal Calvin Jackson  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 326th Abn Engineers
Corporal Richard M. Wright  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, E Co
Private First Class Robert R. Blankenship  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
Private First Class Carl L. Fenstermaker  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, E Co
Private First Class Stephen Pustola  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, F Co
Private First Class Lachlan M. Tillman  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
Private Charles Partlow  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
Private James William Wheeler  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, Hq & HqCo
Private John M. White  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
Security Team
Second Lieutenant Rolf Michaelis  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
Corporal Jack E. Mattz  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
Private First Class John Sherbon  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
Private First Class John W. Wright  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
Private Frederick Linacre  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
Private Henry Meehan  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
Private Jerome E. Werbela  [voir le dossier] 101st Airborne Div., 506th PIR, 2nd Bn, D Co
Aircrew
Captain Clyde Taylor  [voir le dossier] Pilot
Captain Harold H. Sperber  [voir le dossier] Co-pilot
Captain Preston Corsa  [voir le dossier] Navigator
Marvin Blockbum  [voir le dossier] Crew Chief
Waters  [voir le dossier] Radio Operator