Delivered Boeing Mat Com 7/10/43; Gr Island 12/11/43; Memphis 20/11/43; Assigned 419BS/301BG Cerignola 17/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44 Missing in Action 17m Ploesti 5/4/44 with Jesse Coppedge, co-pilot Bill Bristor, Navigator: DeCosta, Bombardier: Lewis Armistead, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Ferguson, Radio Operator: France Goodwin, Ball turret gunner: Bob Seaquist, Waist gunner: Don Eschback, Waist gunner: Wendell Wilcox, Tail gunner: Chris Wollenberg (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Missing Air Crew Report 3882.