Delivered Lowry 3/3/42; Assigned 30BS&28BS/19BG Hawaii 28/5/42; Missing in Action Buil-Baisi, New Guinea 1/11/42 with John S. Hancock, Co-pilot: Bob Burns, Navigator: Jim Carver, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Hiram Wilkinson, Radio Operator: Ed Cipriani, Waist gunner: Mac Groesbeck, Waist gunner: Ray Maxwell, Curtis Longenberger, shot down over Solomon Is crashed on mountain ridge near Milne Bay; human remains and other effects found March 1999, some items returned by native villagers.. (Last combat loss of 19BG).