From the Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 15215 (3 October 1944 - Brutus K. Hamilton, Captain, Air Corps, Intelligence Officer) detailing the events of the 42-40938 crash: "Lt. Earl D. Warren, Jr. returned to base 17 September 1944. He reports that A/C No. 938 was damaged by flak or fighters just at dusky dark while the group was returning. A/C No. 938 had to struggle and was attacked by enemy fighters. The left wing caught fire and the order was given to bail out. Lt. Warren was in the nose with Lt. Edward Miller. After Lt. Miller jumped and just as Lt. Warren was preparing to jump a large shell or rocket came into the A/C from underneath, striking just back of the nose wheel and probably passed on up through the cockpit. Lt. Warren remembers wondering if the shell got anyone in the cockpit area or on the flight deck. That is the last memory until he awakened on the ground. He does not remember leaving the A/C or pulling his rip cord or landing. He landed in the vicinity of Fauville-en-Caux and the French told him the plane had crashed nearby. He was not able to ascertain how many, if any, bodies were in the plane when it crashed. Lt. Warren evaded capture for a year and was released when the Allies occupied the territory in which he was hiding."

Additional research (ED-BB-March 2019) :

In 2nd Lt Warren's E&E Report (E&E 1748), on-line at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5556378 , he mentions he landed between Doudeville and Fauville-en-Caux (NW of Rouen, Seine-Maritime), France. He hid in a barn and was found two days later by a boy who fetched helpers who gave him civilian clothes. He walked to Yvetot where a Frenchman sheltered him for the night. From there, he took a train to Allouville-Bellefosse to meet “Gilbert” Sauvage [ Note : the French Helpers list has his first name as Germain…] Sauvage told him he couldn’t help him at the time, so Warren walked for the next four days and reached Fécamps, then walked back to Allouville. There, he met Auvage again, who took him to the farm of René Langlois [ Note : Ferme de la Truvère ], also in Allouville-Bellefosse. Warren stayed there until the 1st of November 1943. On that date, Auvage took him to his home, where Warren stayed until 9 March 1944. He was then taken back to Langlois’ farm, where Warren says he was efficiently helped by “Mr & Mme Roger of Le Havre” [ Note : most probably the Mr & Ms Roger Mayer, in that city in the list of French Helpers…] Plans were made to either evacuate him by plane, or down to Spain, and on about 10 April 1944, he was given a false ID card by Auvage, who had got it from a man in Rouen. Arrests in the Résistance groups in the region and the heightened risks at moving around on roads before and after the D-Day landings prevented his moving further and Warren was kept hidden at the Langlois farm. He says the Germans left the area on 31 August and that Belgians came the same day before they left the farm to go to Le Mans. Warren says he was escorted to town on the 1st of September by members of the FFI (Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur) and handed over to a Captain of the Royal Marines on 5 September. The Captain drove him by jeep to Bolbec where he joined 4 other evading US airmen. The group was then taken to the HQ of the 1st Canadian Army and they were flown from B15 [ = the temporary airfield at Ryes, NE of Caen, Brittany] on 7 September, landing the same day in England. Warren was back to his base on 14 September 1944.

Note : In his book “Au Galop de Nos Blindés” (publ. Belgium 1991), Lt General Roger Dewandre (1918-2003), who was then a Lieutenant, commanding Troop 2, 1st Belgian Armoured Cars Squadron, a reconnaissance unit, mentions a report by Belgian Adj. Major Dulait (HQ-Scout Car) for the 31 August 1943 action. Dulait writes : “… we are very close of Valliquerville and notice some totally isolated farm buildings near the crossroads, on the southern side of the Bolbec-Yvetot road [ note : the present-day N6015]. I decide to install my (3rd) platoon there, after having made sure the place wasn’t occupied. As a matter of fact, the buildings were at right angles to opposing two earth-banks, also at right angles, forming a rectangular block. I put my armoured cars facing the road, their cannons overhanging the earth-banks. We are watching the crossroads with our binoculars. Until such time as my men think they can see a sniper in one of the (farm) buildings. After a careful examination, we find out that there’s a man hiding in a cellar. We learned afterwards that it was an American airman, shot down some months ago in the area. The local farmers had hidden him all that time at their place. As he was coming out only at night, his face was white as a sheet. Needless to say his joy was immense when he realized he was dealing with Allied troops whose vehicles were adorning the star of liberation.” Warren’s name doesn’t appear in the book, but research has made the connection possible, the location confirming the details in Warren’s report.