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JUMP STICKS FOR  HQ 1st - SERIAL 22, CHALK 3

The stick rosters for the first nine aircraft of the 508th 1st Battalion as they went into Normandy.

Section 1
Plane #3
 
 

(Handwritten roster of Bill Goudy,
courtesy Lois Andrews)
 1.  1/Lt Edgar R.  Abbott (81mm Mortar Platoon Ldr   KIA 17 Jun 1944
 2.  Pvt Joseph F. Farrison (Mortar) WIA Jun/Jul 1944 Living?
 3.  Pfc Warren R. Brown (Runner, Mortar)  (duplicates entries on Planes 1 and 5) WIA 9 Oct 1944 Died 1 Oct 2008
 4.  Cpl Wendel M. Short (Mortar)   KIA 7 Jun 1944
 5.  Pfc Donald N. Matyskella (Mortar)   KIA 7 Jun 1944
 6.  Pvt Woodrow Lee Willis (Mortar?)   Died Mar 1985
 7.  Pvt Arnold J. Sims (Mortar)   KIA 7 Jun 1944
 8.  Pvt Leland E. Chitwood (Mortar)   Died 7 Mar 2007
 9.  Pvt Andrew Babjak (Mortar)   KIA 6 Jun 1944
10. Pvt James W. Allen WIA Jun/Jul 1944 Living ?
11. Pvt Marion l. Pence   KIA 14 Jun 1944
12. Pvt Charles W. Winton   Living ?
13. Pfc Larney R. Vancourt (Mortar)   Died 2 Feb 1986
14. Pvt Francis N. Bowen (Medic)   KIA 15 Jun 1944
15. T/5 Sylvester J. Baysinger (Service Co)   KIA 6 Jun 1944
  16. SSgt Harold E. Roberts (Service Co)   KIA 6 Jun 1944
  17. Pvt David M. Jones (Erroneous, Jones was #13 in Plane 1)   -
  18. Pvt James E. Fust (Mortar, Asst Jumpmaster)   Died 25 Mar 1986
       
Initial details reprinted from book entitled "From Heaven To Hell" with permission of author Ben LeLandais and extended or corrected through research of Dick O'Donnell.  Note that some names are duplicated in two or even three aircraft and are annotated as such.  Author LeLandais has no explanation other than the fact that the lists he received contained these errors.

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