YORKTOWN AIR GROUP 1 June 1942
VF-3 Tactical Organization
Bu No Side # Assigned Pilot
5171 3-F-1 LCDR John Smith Thach
5170 3-F-2 ENS Robert Allen Murray Dibb
5169 3-F-3 LTJG Brainard Tucker Macomber
5168 3-F-4 ENS Edgar R Bassett
5167 3-F-5 MACH Tom Fred Cheek
5165 3-F-6 ENS Daniel Crysdale Sheedy
5152 3-F-7 LTJG Richard Gunter Crommelin
5151 3-F-8 ENS John Burton Edward Bain
5150 3-F-9 ENS Richard Lee Wright
5149 3-F-10 ENS George F Markham Jr
5148 3-F-11 LTJG Elbert Scott McCuskey
5147 3-F-12 ENS Mark L Bright
5244 3-F-13 (was 3-F-26) LTJG William Nicholas Leonard
5245 3-F-14 (was 3-F-27) ENS John Paul Adams
5144 3-F-15 LTJG Walter Albert Haas
5143 3-F-16 ENS George A Hopper Jr
5142 3-F-17 MACH Doyle Clayton Barnes
5080 3-F-18 ENS Milton Tootle Jr
5066 3-F-19 LTJG Arthur James Brassfield
5049 3-F-20 ENS Harry Bonaparte Gibbs
5153 3-F-21 LTJG Edward Duran Mattson
5050 3-F-22 ENS Horace Ancel Bass Jr
5093 3-F-23 LTJG William Stone Woollen
5239 3-F-24 LTJG William Wesley Barnes Jr
5243 3-F-25 Spare
5145 3-F-13 original 13 - 29 May 42 Deck Crash
5146 3-F-14 original 14 - 29 May 42 Deck Crash
not assigned ENS Robert C Evans
not assigned ENS Van H Morris
not assigned ENS Harold Joseph William Eppler
VB-3 Tactical Organization
BuNo Side # Assigned Pilot / Gunner
4663 3-B-1 LCDR Maxwell Franklin Leslie / William Earl Gallagher, ARM1c
4662 3-B-2 LTJG Paul Algodte Holmberg / George Albert LaPlant, AMM2c
unkn 3-B-3 ENS Paul Wahl Schlegel / Jack Alvan Shropshire, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-4 ENS Robert Keith Campbell / Horace Henry Craig, AMM1c
unkn 3-B-5 ENS Aldon W Hansen / Joseph Vernon Godfrey, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-6 ENS Robert Haines Benson / Frederick Paul Bergeron, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-7 LTJG Gordon Alvin Sherwood / Harmon Donald Bennett, ARM2c
unkn 3-B-8 ENS Roy Maurice Isaman / Sidney Kay Weaver, ARM3c
unkn 3-B-9 ENS Phillip Walker Cobb / Clarence E Zimmershead, ARM2c
3246 3-B-10 LT Harold Sydney Bottomley / David Frederick Johnson, AMM2c
3247 3-B-11 ENS Charles S Lane / Jack Charles Henning, ARM2c
3248 3-B-12 ENS John Clarence Butler / David Donald Berg, ARM3c
3209 3-B-13 LT DeWitt Wood Shumway / Ray Edgar Coons, ARM1c
3242 3-B-14 ENS Robert Martin Elder / Leslie Alan Till, RM3c
3238 3-B-15 ENS Bunyon Randolph Cooner / Clifton R Bassett, AOM2c
3237 3-B-16 LTJG Osborne Beeman Wiseman / Grant Ulysses Dawn, ARM3c
4675 3-B-17 ENS Milford Austin Merrill / Dallas Joseph Bergeron, ARM3c
4604 3-B-18 non operational
3244 3-B-unkn
3245 3-B-unkn
3233 3-B-unkn
4602 3-B-unkn
4610 3-B-unkn
4625 3-B-unkn
4642 3-B-unkn
not assigned ENS Jack Rugen / Charles C Brassel, AOM1c
not assigned ENS Raymond Morrow Reynolds / Charles Westbrook Albright, ARM2c
VT-3 Tactical Organization
Bu No Side # Assigned Pilot / Gunner
285 3-T-1 LCDR Lance Edward Massey / Leo Edward Perry, ACRM(AA)
286 3-T-2 CAP Wilhelm George Esders / Robert Boyd Brazier, ARM2c
303 3-T-3 MACH Harry Lee Corl / Lloyd Fred Childers, ARM3c
310 3-T-4 LTJG Curtis William Howard / Harold C Lundy Jr, ARM1c
312 3-T-5 ENS Leonard L Smith / Raymond Joseph Darce, ARM3c
340 3-T-6 not operational
341 3-T-7 LT Patrick Henry Hart / John Ralph Cole, ARM1c
343 3-T-8 ENS David John Roche / Charles Lee Moore, ARM3c
354 3-T-9 ENS Carl August Osberg / Richard Matthew Hanson, ARM3c
361 3-T-10 LTJG Richard Wayne Suesens / Troy L Barkley, ARM2c
375 3-T-11 ENS Oswald A Powers / Joseph Emile Mandeville, SEA2c
381 3-T-12 ENS Wesley Frank Osmus / Benjamin R Dodson Jr, ARM3c
1511 3-T-13 CH MACH John William Haas / William A Phillips Jr, ARM3c
1513 3-T-14 not operational
333 3-T-15 not operational
not assigned LTJG Fred Cone Herriman / Wendell M Anderson, ARM2c
not assigned ENS Gerald Russell Stablein / Richard C Groad, ARM3c
not assigned ENS Otho Henry Schneider / Jack O Bacholette, ARM3c
not assigned ENS Donald Edward Weissenborn / Hartford K Parks, SEA1c
not assigned ENS John M Armitage / Fred A Austin, ARM3c
not assigned MACH John Russell Baker / David H Lane, ARM3c
not assigned RAD ELEC Werner Innocenz Weis / Russell W Crick, ARM3c
VB-5 Tactical Organization
Bu No Side # Assigned Pilot / Gunner
4547 5-B-1 LT Wallace Clark Short Jr / John W Trott, ACRM(PA)
4558 5-B-2 ENS Carl Herman Horenburger / Lynn Raymond Forshee, ARM3c
4629 5-B-3 ENS Leif Walther Larsen / John F Gardner, ARM3c
4652 5-B-4 LT Harlan Rockey Dickson / Joseph Michael Lynch Jr, ARM2c
unkn 5-B-5 LTJG Nels Luther A Berger / Otto Russell Phelps, ACRM(PA)
unkn 5-B-6 ENS John David Bridgers / William Johnson, ARM3c
4650 5-B-7 LT Sam Adams / Joseph John Karrol, ARM1c
unkn 5-B-8 LTJG David Render Berry / Earnest A Clegg, ARM2c
unkn 5-B-9 ENS John N Ammen Jr / John Iacovazzi, ARM3c
unkn 5-B-10 LTJG Charles Neal Conatser / Henry P McGowan Jr, ARM2c
4688 5-B-11 ENS Benjamin Gifford Preston / Harold R Cowden, ARM1c
unkn 5-B-12 ENS Robert D Gibson / Wilburn D Harp, ARM3c
4637 5-B-13 LT John Ludwig Nielsen / Walter Dean Straub, ACRM(PA)
unkn 5-B-14 LTJG William Francis Christie / Alvin A Sobel, ARM1c
4634 5-B-15 ENS Liston R Comer / Harold J Wilger, ARM3c
4553 5-B-16 LTJG Henry Martin McDowell / Eugene C Strickland, ARM2c
unkn 5-B-17 LTJG Raymond Phillip Kline / Norbert A Fives, ARM3c
unkn 5-B-18 ENS Richard Frederick Wolfe / Leon L Getz, ARM3c
unkn 5-B-19 ENS Gerald S Richey / Otis Albert Phelps, ACRM(PA)
4679 CYAG LCDR Oscar Pederson / assigned unkn
4518 5-B-unkn
4530 5-B-unkn
4538 5-B-unkn
4551 5-B-unkn
4559 5-B-unkn
4588 5-B-unkn
4622 5-B-unkn
4683 5-B-unkn
4690 5-B-unkn
not assigned ENS Raymond Miligi Jr / William R Mohler, ARM3c
not assigned ENS Elmer A Conzett / Gerald E Hollinsworth, SEA1c
