960th Engineer Aviation Topographic Company

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The Tech crew

The 960th Engineer Aviation Topographic Company provided support for the V (Fifth) Bomber Command, which was assigned to the Fifth Air Force during World War II. The company was assigned duty in Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines, and later Japan.

This page is dedicated to my father, Edward McHugh, and all the men in his unit. My goal is to create profiles for each and every one of them, so that they will be remembered and never forgotten. Most of the men have passed away, but some I am not sure about.

This all began when I found a box containing all of my dad's World War 2 "stuff" many years after he died. I found rosters, maps that he had printed, patches, thousands of photos, and all sorts of little odds and ends. Dad saved everything.

He once told me a story of how he and some of the guys killed a wild boar while stationed in the Phillipines. I never really believed him, but sure enough - there was a boar's tusk inside that box! My mom told me later that they got into a lot of trouble for killing that boar.

The 960th Personnel Directory (click to enlarge):

Photos:

Photos

Profiles of men in this unit:

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Eugene Oswald Abbott

August Gustave Allgaier

Louis Carroll Anderson

Phillip J. Badame

Clarence Joseph Bagus

Dwight Elmo Baker

Edwin Abner Barksdale

Pierre William Beckerle

Kenneth George Beckett

Alfred Georg Behrens

Forrest Bell

William Francis Bell

Robert James Blevins

Ray Hollis Boatman

Anthony Joseph Boccio

Paul Edward Bowden Jr.

Justin Louis Breitnauer

Frederick Elwood Brown

Raymond Eugene Burlison

Elwin Max Buzzard

Herbert Leslie Campbell

Sanford Loyd Carpenter

Arthur Joseph Casnellie

Charles Clarence Cheek Jr.

Norman G. Clay

Robert Page Clapper

George H. Clarkson

James William Cochell

Frank R. Cooke Jr.

Edward J. Coons

John W. Courtenay

James L. Cuddeback

Jesse T. Davis

Thomas L. Deegan

George Deneris

Richard John DeSimony

Henry DeVita

Lawrence William Dickelman

Clarence William Dillion

Anthony H. Diorio

Robert James Doucette

Joseph Dusza

Charles William Edwards

Walter Eigendorff Jr.

Clyde Ray Elimon

Cullen Ellet Jr.

Paul Edward Ellet

Lindell Glenn Estes

Gerald M. Fitzgibbon

Guyton Lankford Flanagan

Francis L. Flewelling

Ervin J. Flurer

Charles Gilbert Ford

Harlo A. French

Kenneth J. Friley

Oscar Gamez

Mills E. Gay

Maurice J. Gianni

Coy M Gilbert

James Robert Gray

Howard L. Gruber

William Joseph Guinan

Harold Roger Hancock

Claude Casey Hand

Kenneth Charles Harnish

Delmar L. Hatton

Lawrence L. Haverstock

Charles Brent Haynie

John Ramon Wallington Hernandez

Henry S. Herwerden

James Orval Holland

Grady Preston Holcomb

Abner I. Jacoby

Arthur Thorpe Johnson

Walton Conaway Johnson

Bernard P. Kane

Peter Nicholas Kapellas

Sidney Kasanoff

Lyle A. Kerns

Cecil A. Kersten

Winfred A. Knox

Charles J. Kopecky

Charles J. Kopecky

Paul M. Koska

John Russell Kueck

Pasquale D. Lamontagna

Michael R. Lannefeld

Robert M. Lathrop

Grady Edward Lee

John Andrew Lines

Lester L. Love

Robert A. Love

James Ellis Major

Clifford P. Malchow

Edward R. Martynowski

Edward F. McHugh

Charles J. McMartin

Lawrence Martin Michaelis

Clement Scott Miller

Roman S. Minta

Barney J. Moehling

Thomas W. Monaghan

Richard B. Morrell

Samuel B. Moseman

Arthur Muehling

Charles E. Mundy

Howard L. Munns

J B Murphree

Stephen Nagy

James Alvie Newbery

Victor E. Nichoson

Herbert Oeser

Gustave W. Ostermann

James B. Owen

Joseph V. Pantaleo

Henry J. Pasten

Theodore Hilary Pasturski (aka Patton)

Clyde Alexander Patterson Jr.

Albert J. Pempey

Russell S. Perusse

John W. Pettitt

Edward A. Pietruszewski

Luigi Pompeo

Clarence Ponomar

Winston W. Porter

Wendell R. Potter

George W. Prentice

Ernest H. Raab

Harold L. Rakov

Harry B. Randall Jr.

Charley Albert Reed

Edmond C. Reeves

John D. Roderick

Roy Rogers Jr.

Joe Sanders

Sidney D. Saslow

Richard Lee Schafer

Albert E. Schaffrick

Willard A. Scheiblein

Russell Garrett Seifken

Harold B. Shapiro

Jessie Ray Simms

Elmer Franklin Sink

William M. Smith

Arthur N. Spano

John Hugh Stake

George Edward Starr

Alex J. Stec

William Fred Stegeman

William P. Stone

Joseph F. Stork

Frederick Morris Streitfeld

Lloyd Wallace Stromgren

Edward Strzelecki

Edward A. Szymczak

Owens Vincent Tagtmeier

Wayne Clifford Taylor

Elbert Thompson

T. S. Thompson

John J Trapp

Michael Trawinski

Washington I. Tuttle Jr.

William C. Unkel

Robert C. Vogl

Roy J. Vondriska

Joseph W. Voss

Phillip Hayden Wanzer

Kenneth Homer Watson

Fred E. Wendt

Elmer John Wiegrefe

Evan J. Williams

Henry A. Wilk

Robert A. Wilson

Charles Bedford Wiseman

Harold L. Worthington

Clel L. Yancey

The following men do not have profiles yet. This is because either no death information can be found and/or there is a possibly they may still be living, or their names are too common, making them hard to find. The locations next their names are where they lived at the time of enlistment (not where they were born). I included birth dates/locations when found:

Milton Gottleib (Brooklyn, NY)

John R. W. Hernandez (Huntington, NY)

Robert J. Hopkins (Detroit, MI)

Charles F. Kelly (Dover, DE)

John C. Martin (Montgomery, AL)

William H. Miller (Syracuse, NY; b. 1924)

George A. Patrick (Colorado Springs, CO)

Charles H. Smith (South Hill, VA)

Michael J. Smith (Columbus, OH) ^[1]

Leo Stein (Bronx, NY)

James W. Walker (Indianapolis, IN)

William C. Walker (State Line, IN)

Sources

1. ↑ "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMJK-3NH : 5 December 2014), Michael J Smith, enlisted 21 May 1942, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.