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 LeeWillis
(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)
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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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