DDay - 439th troop carrier group 2nd 506th battalion 101st airborne

439th carrier group serial “12” 2nd 506th

Chalk #19 in serial #6a. Under the belly is, like all patfinder aircraft and serial leaders, a radar SCR-717C. Pathfinders were from the 502nd PIR and their duty was to mark the LZ "E”

Serial 12 – 101st Airborne Division – 506th Battalion

Airfield: Upottery
Air transport unit: 439th Troop Carrier Group
Drop zone: C
Drop hour: 01:20
Transported unit: 2nd Battalion, 506th P.I.R.

Legend:

Douglas C-47 Dakota

Destroyed Douglas C-47 Dakota

This table illustrates the flight formation adopted by the air unit in charge of transporting paratroopers on June 6, 1944 during Operation Neptune, as part of the No. 12 serial. The position and the corresponding number (written in chalk on aircraft) are listed as well as the aircraft serial number and the pilot name when known.

 

				#46 42-100851 Tower
			#48 43-15046 Reid		#47 43-15211 Petty
	#52 42-100824 Hogan						#49 42-100825 Imschweiler
#54 42-100641 McCain		#53 42-100828 Smith				#51 42-100826 McBride		#50 42-100830 Blanton
				#55 42-100649 Morris
			#57 42-100837 Beebe (Winters)		#56 43-15087 Pedersen
	#61 42-100844 Ladd						#58 42-100876 Muir 3B
#63 42-100846 Brauer		#62 42-100843 Pender				#60 42-100874 Schultze		#59 42-100838 Beauregard 2nd batn
				#64 43-15213 Morton
			#66 42-93095 Capelluto L4 A		#65 42-100660 Schuman
	#70 42-100847 LePard L4 B						#67 42-100646 Sammons L4 E
#72 42-100885 Padon		#71 42-100818 Harris L4				#69 43-15319 Savercool		#68 43-15049 Francis
				#73 42-100855 Lorimor
			#75 42-100626 Patterson		#74 42-100862 Turner
	#79 43-100853 Berner						#76 42-100849 King
#81 42-100775 Hennicke		#80 091 Dobson				#78 42-93004 Neill		#77

Composition C-47 42-100876 

Piloted by 1st Lieutenant Marvin F. Muir and belonging to the 93rd Transport Squadron (3B), 439th Troop Carrier Group, shot down by the German anti-aircraft defense on June 6, 1944 over Picauville in Normandy while carrying paratroopers belonging to D Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.

It crashes near Sainte-Mère-Eglise.

The crew members died in the crash. The paratroopers had time to jump.

Crew

1 Lt  Marvin F. Muir – O – 541641 – Indiana
2 Lt Kenneth C. Bell – O – 705291
2 Lt John A. Marisay/Martsay – O – 697894
S/Sgt Clifford L. Burgess – 14140642 – Georgia
Sgt Philip Snyder/Synder – 13081009 – Pennsylvania

Paratroopers (D Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division)

Composition of C-47 42-93095 

Piloted by 1st Lieutenant Harold Andrew Capelluto belonging to the 91st Squadron (L4), 439th Troop Carrier Group, shot down by the German anti-aircraft defense on June 6, 1944 over Beuzeville-au-Plain in Normandy while carrying paratroopers belonging to Easy company, 506th Parachute Infantry Division, 101st Airborne Division.

It crashed at Beuzeville-au-Plain.

All crew members and paratroopers on board died in the crash.

Crew
1 Lt Harold Andrew Capelluto
2 Lt John Joseph Fanelli
2nd/Lt Bernard Friedman
Sgt Albert R. Tillotson Jr
Sgt Norman E.  Thompson

Paratroopers (Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division)
1 Lt Thomas Meehan
1st/Sgt William S. Evans
S/Sgt Murray B. Roberts
Sgt Elmer L. Murray Jr.
Sgt Richard E. Owen
Sgt Carl N. Riggs
T/5 Herman F. Collins
T/5 Jerry A. Wentzel
T/5 Ralph H. Wimer
William McConigal
Pvt George L.  Elliott
Pfc John N. Miller
Pfc Sergio G. Moya
Pfc Gerald R. Snider
Pfc Elmer L. Telstad
Pfc Thomas W. Warren
Pfc Earnest Oats

2nd Lieutenant Henry L. Harris, 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group, sitting in the cockpit of his plane 'Sultry Sally'