36th BS

Carpenter Crew

Back Row, left to right:
Unidentified
Lonnie Hammond Jr., Navigator    (KIA)
background person unknown
Clarence Johnson, Engineer       (POW)
Wade Carpenter, Pilot            (POW)
Unidentified

Front Row, left to right:
Eden C. Burris, Radio Operator   (POW) 
Unidentified
Bernard Eshleman, Copilot        (POW)
Edwin Herdman, Dispatcher        (POW)

Not shown: 
John W. Dudley, Tail Gunner      (Evader/POW)
Glenn C. Nesbitt, Navigator      (POW)
William D. Rees,  Bombardier     (KIA)
 
Picture Location: East Coast Anti-Submarine Group
Picture Date: Summer 1943

Monument: Humbercourt (Somme), France

Status: Original crew excepting Nesbitt who was a passenger from the 406th BS, a Navigator by training.

MACR 3435 

Honor Roll Entries

Photo Credit: Clarence Johnson

Errata: Dudley evaded 4Mar-Jun? 1944 with the help of the Bordeaux-Loupiac escape network before being captured and interned in Stalag Luft IV, where most of his fellow crewmembers had been since March of 1944.  Eshleman was interned in Stalag Luft I. Rees is believed to be the only Carpetbagger who died in captivity during WWII - his legs were amputated after being taken to a military hospital and he died of shock the following day.

Incident Aircraft: B24-D 42-63789

One of the first Carpetbagger aircraft, received from BAD 1 on 17 Nov 1943, a former 479th ASW craft.

Aircraft Details Credit: Tom Brittan

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