The crew of the 406th Bomb Squadron standing in front of the Liberator B-24 “Brer Rabbit” which dropped the “VIS” Team during the night from 1st to 2 June 1944.

Standing up (left to right): Clinton Rabbit (Pilot) - Ernest Asbury (Co-pilot) - Floyd Olson (Navigator) - Donald Leinhauser (Bomber) - Art Bogusz (Mechanic)
In crouching position (left to right): Nick Rasnak (Dispatcher) - Steve Sianis (Radio) - Mike Tauger (Tail gunner)

Carpetbagger Operation

The purpose of the Carpetbagger project was to fly "Special Operations" to deliver supplies to resistance groups in enemy occupied countries; to deliver personnel called “JOEs” to the field (BCRA, Jedburghs, OSS, Proust, SOE, Sussex) and occasionally to bring back personnel from the field ...

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For more information, please visit Roy Tebbutt’s website of the Carpetbagger Aviation museum in Harrington (UK):

http://harringtonmuseum.org.uk/

The reports of missions

These mission reports detailed the crew members, the type of missions and the numbers of Joes dropped.

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For more information, please visit Thomas Ensminger’s website, historian of the 801st / 492nd Carpetbagger Bomb Group:

http://home.comcast.net/~801492bg.historian/MainMenu.htm

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Stapel's Crew

Members of the Stapel’s crew who dropped, during the night of 10th to 11th of May 1944, the Sussex teams “Diane” and “Ney” on Neaufles sur Risle (Eure) during operation FIAT 6 (Carpetbaggers mission n° 429A).

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