Personnel

CREW



2nd Lt Reginald A. Smith   P POW 20/2/44  TAPS; 1984  TARGET WAS POSEN & SETTIN, FACTORIES

2nd Lt Orlin H. Markussen  CP POW 20/2/44

2nd Lt Gerald C. Scott  N POW 20/2/44  TAPS:

2nd Lt Ernest Cribbs  B POW 20/2/44

  T/Sgt Thomas M. Egan  E POW 20/2/44  TAPS: 1977

  T/Sgt Ira G. Evans  R EVADEE 20/2/44

  S/Sgt Edward B. Dyblie  BT POW 20/2/44

  S/Sgt Edward Britko  LWG    POW 20/2/44  TAPS: 1985

  S/Sgt Robert L. Dunbar  RWG   POW 20/2/44

  S/Sgt Michael E. Udick  TG       POW 20/2/44



418th Sqdn.  A/C #42 37790 "AIN'T MIS BEHAVIN"



"At 1452 hours near the Danish coast Lt. Smith called over VHF saying he was going to  try and reach Sweden.  His a/c was hit over the target area by rockets and was smoking badly, but shortly after the entire crew had to parachute.  The crash was observed by the Germans at the radar station in Skovby, and some of the airmen were taken prisoner of war shortly after landing.  Some managed to hide in the forest near Fjellerup 

parsonage and they were found by the farmer Mr. Rasmus Thrane, who hid them for a while. But they were anxious to reach Sweden so they went for the sea, and they were taken prisoner near Baring beach. Ira Evans hid in the forest and came in contact with the Danish resistance movement.  He reached Sweden on 7/3/44.



A/C crashed at Harslev Mark, 7 km s of Bogense town on NW part of Funen 

Island.



Of interest in this crew's last mission is an article in THE BLOODY HUNDREDTH   (page 141 to 147) by Horace Varian

in which Orlin Markussen relates the story of how he made contact 31 years after the fact with the German fighter pilot

who shot down "AIN'T MIS BEHAVIN" Mar 20th, 1944..