Full names of some RAF airmen in Middle East

[JohanSWE]

Originally Posted by RSwank

Regarding the question in post #4 about McCarty. The navigator on the mission was Merrill Kern Gordon, Jr. (The 98th BG reports on Tara Copp's site have his name incorrectly as William Gordon.)

Note: Merrill K Gordon is also listed in 376th BG, so perhaps this was a special crew put together for the mission or maybe he had moved to the 98th. He had flown with the pilot, Omohundro before. This shows him listed in the 376th here:
https://www.armyaircorps-376bg.com/m...lyde_crew.html

Here is an article from August 1943, after they had both returned to the U.S.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4955...oner-tribuner/

The mission they were doing in February was a ferret mission, locating German and Italian radar sites along the Italian and Adriatic coasts. Sgt McCarty (RAF) was the specialist operating the locator equipment.

On this link: https://archive.org/stream/OnCelesti...Wings_djvu.txt

search for the phrase: Then came an unusual

There is a long interesting section on the link about Gordon and the phrase above will get you to the middle of his story at the start of the ferret mission and how it ended up in Turkey.

Thank you so much RSwank! this information clear up lot of the mystery of what this mission was all about and the circumstances that occured on that mission.


Regards
JohanSwe