Delivered Tulsa 12/5/44; Hunter 21/5/44; Dow Fd 29/5/44; Assigned 509BS/351BG [DS-K] Polebrook 8/6/44; 31 missions.



Battle damaged on mission to Brux 12/9/44. Made a precautionary landing at Villers-Lez-Heest (La Bruyère) near Namur, Belgium.



The crew were as follows:

Pilot, Don Hadley; Co-pilot, Tauno Maki; Navigator, Zebulon Hites; Bombardier, George Hotchkin; Flight engineer/top turret gunner, Earl Rhodes; Radio Operator, Ed Wasinger; Ball turret gunner, Roy Lantrip; Waist gunner, Milton Griffin and Tail gunner, Albert Grantham (9 Returned to Duty).



A monument to the crew was put up near the site that the aircraft landed in 1994.



Crash landed Ham-Sur-Sambre, near Charleroi, Belgium.

Salvaged 14/11/45.



Before the aircraft was salvaged many parts were "Liberated" by locals, in 2020 the Hangar Thirteen restoration project who are restoring the aircraft 42-3455, were offered some of these parts for sale by a local man called Robert Bodart whose father had taken them from 44-3619. These include an autopilot gyroscope, a Type G-1 oxygen tank, an AN-M2 .50 caliber gun barrel, rudder pedals, a ball turret fuse box, a chin turret fuse box, and a top turret base assembly.