Next of Kin

2LT Donald Clark Boyd

Point of contact for the Boyd family:

Mrs. Frances Boyd

New Brigton, PA

Websites about Marigny-l'Eglise

Population: 347

The Church of Marigny l'Eglise

Wikipedia (English)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marigny-l

Wikipedia (French)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marigny-l

Photos of the town:
http://www.communes.com/bourgogne/nievre/marigny-l-eglise_58140/

Websites about the Carpetbaggers

Special Forces Roll of Honour:
http://www.specialforcesroh.com/browse.php?mode=viewc&catid=63

The Carpetbaggers Aviation Museum:
http://harringtonmuseum.org.uk/CarpetbaggerMuseumHomePage.htm

American War Memorials Overseas
http://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/monument_details.php?SiteID=493&MemID=759

The Crew of the American Plane

The names are not necessarily in the right order, so please comment on what you know.

Back row standing

DAVID MICHELSON

JOHN SHAW

DONALD BOYDE

MELVIN WEISS

Front row

WILLIAM HOVANEC

DUNCAN PATTERSON

ENOCH WOOTEN

JACK JONES (was no longer assigned at time of accident)

ARNOLD MARINOFF

The Monuments: Built in 1994 for the 50th Anniversary

In this place, during the night of 18 July 1944, in the course of a parachute drop for the Maquis (French Resistance), two Allied aircraft collided. Fifteen American and British airmen perished for our freedom. They shall be forever glorified.

Glory and Recognition

To our friends the English and American airmen and to the valiant Russian soldier who fell gloriously to Earth in the town of Marigny-l’Eglise on July 19, 1944, for our deliverance.

Headstone
To the 15 Allied airmen who fell here on 18 July 1944 in the course of a parachute drop for Maquis Camille (a French Resistance group).
Sign

Maquis Camille
(a French Resistance group)
Drop zone “PAINTING”
In this area many tons of weaponry were dropped by parachute as well as jeeps and British 57mm guns, from June until September 1944. In the course of an operation on July 18, 1944, two Allied planes collided, resulting in 15 deaths. See the Marigny-l’Eglise cemetery.

SSG Enoch K. Wooten Jr.

Points of contact for the Wooten family:
Clay Wooten (brother)
Gainesville, GA
stampvend@aol.com

1LT David A. Michelson

Points of contact for the Michelson family:
David A. Michelson Jr. (son)
California
arikjames@hotmail.com
(please reference the blog in your email)

Tech SGT Duncan Locklin Patterson

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Newspaper clippings concerning Tech. SGT Patterson's valor.

Points of contact for the Patterson family:

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Christina ("Chris") Patterson Eeckhout (sister)
Spencerport, NY
cjp@rochester.rr.com

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John Wood (nephew)

Cardiff, CA

woodstonesteel@hotmail.com

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Lisa Smallwood (niece)

Oakland, ME

lisas2x@myfairpoint.net

Photo of the crew

Scroll down to Michelson to see a photo of the crew:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://home.comcast.net/~801492bg.historian/HiTitle.jpg&imgrefurl=http://home.comcast.net/~801492bg.historian/Air%2520Crew/850thBS/850th-Names.html&usg=__JXQoCFA5SmSMK3uffccpHqq7Klo=&h=257&w=600&sz=33&hl=en&start=2&itbs=1&tbnid=m44rXjfBZtHgwM:&tbnh=58&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3D850th%2Bcrew%2Bmichelson%26hl%3Den%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1

List of Allied airmen who died

List of airmen who perished in a mid-air collision above the town of Marigny-l'Eglise in the course of an airdrop to aid the French Resistance (Maquis Camille):

AMERICANS - U.S. Air Force
850 Bomber Squadron (801 Bomber Group)

1LT David A. Michelson
Gravesite: Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France, Plot B Row 20 Grave 62

1LT Melvin Weiss
Gravesite: Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France, Plot B Row 21 Grave 62

2LT Donald Clark Boyde
Gravesite: Beaver Cemetery and Mausoleum, Beaver, Pennsylvania

2LT John P. Shaw Jr.
Gravesite: Ardennes American Cemetery, Neupre, Belgium, Plot B Row 34 Grave 57

SSG William J. Hovanec
Gravesite: Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France, Plot B Row 12 Grave 4

SSG Arnold Marinoff

SSG Enoch K. Wooten Jr.
Gravesite: New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery, Houstonville, North Carolina

Tech SGT Duncan Locklin Patterson
Gravesite: Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France, Plot B Row 26 Grave 24

BRITISH
138 Squadron (R.A.F.V.R.)

SGT Grayham Bancroft Byrne
Gravesite: Marigny-L'Eglise Communal Cemetery, Coll. grave 2

Flight Lieutenant John Allan Kidd
Gravesite: Marigny-L'Eglise Communal Cemetery, Coll. grave 1

Pilot Officer Cyril Frederick Thomas Miles
Gravesite: Marigny-L'Eglise Communal Cemetery, Coll. grave 2

SGT James Revill Moody
Gravesite: Marigny-L'Eglise Communal Cemetery, Coll. grave 2

Flight SGT Bernard Stroud
Gravesite: Marigny-L'Eglise Communal Cemetery, Coll. grave 1

SGT Charlie Taylor
Gravesite: Marigny-L'Eglise Communal Cemetery, Coll. grave

138 Squadron (R.C.A.F.)
Flying Officer Kenneth Robertson Urquhart
Gravesite: Marigny-L'Eglise Communal Cemetery, Coll. grave 1