D-DAY - UNITS

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