 Aircraft Manifest (page 2) for Aircraft designation 42-93002, Chalk
4
Aircrew members were:
Pilot Capt Charles S. Cartwright, Co-pilot Flt Officer Alma M. Magleby, Navigator 2/Lt Edward I. Osborne, Radio
Operator SSgt Frank A. DeLuca, Crew Chief SSgt Raymond H. Farris |
 Serial
20
left Saltby Airfield with 35 other aircraft carrying the men of the 2nd
Battalion.
Note that aircraft #4 carrying 18 men of HQ 2nd crashed. All
but 1 wounded paratrooper exited on its third pass over the DZ.
[Read official crew narrative]. None of the 18 listed below are
known to have been wounded on D-Day. Pvt LeGrande Mangus, who later died of
wounds, may possibly be the man who crash landed with the air crew. |
