Delivered Cheyenne 24/6/44; Hunter 17/6/44; Dow Fd 23/7/44; 
Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-L] Chelveston 11/8/44; 
transferred 365BS [XK-L]; (yet belonged to 366BS according to MACR) 
Missing in Action Dresden 17/4/45 with Brainard Harris, Earl Boyd, Herman Spurrier, Earl Losse, Louie Daybrook, Walt McClellan, Sam Williams, Ed Ganschow (8 Killed in Action); mid air coll with jet a/c, crashed Babisnau, Germany; Missing Air Crew Report 14172. TOWERING TITAN.

Info courtesy of J Baugher's USAAF database:

United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 24 Jun 44. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 17 Jun 44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23Jul44. 

366th Bomb Squadron [KY*L], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 11 Aug 44 *Towering Titan*--The aircraft was originally
selected by another pilot to be nicknamed ‘Organised Confusion’.  

Failed to return from a
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Dresden, Germany 17 Apr 45 (1POW:7MIA). 

Before reaching the target area the formation was attacked from the rear by a number
of German Me 262 Schwalbe (Swallow) jet fighters. The formation’s gunners returned
fire and several of the attacking fighters were hit and seen falling away in flames.
Two Me 262 fighters took up a position alongside the ’Towering Titan’ whose gunners
fired on the fighters, hitting one, causing it to explode and descend in flames. The remaining
fighter took up a position ahead of the ’Towering Titan’, off the port wing tip of the lead B-17,
which made it impossible for the gunners to bring their guns to bear. The pilot dropped the
’Towering Titan’ down to allow the upper turret gunner to fire at the German fighter. The pilot
of the Me 262 took evasive action and collided with the ’Towering Titan’ tearing off the
port outer wing panel and damaging the outer engine. The bomber was seen in a gradual dive
, disappearing into the high altitude clouds through which the formation was flying. 

The Me 262 was seen diving away from the formation trailing black smoke. 

An account of the
engagement by Generalleutnant (Maj. General) Adolf Galland and Leutnant (2nd.Lt.) Klaus Neumann
from Jagdverband 44 (JV-44) recalled that Unteroffizier (Cpl.) Eduard Schallmoser’s Me 262 ‘White 5’
was strafed by a solid stream of 0.50 caliber machine gun fire. Both the jet’s engines were severely
damaged, and the aircraft’s canopy was shattered causing Schallmoser to lose control of the aircraft
and collide with the ‘Towering Titan’. Neumann reported that no one managed to bail out of
the ‘Towering Titan’, which was confirmed by Oberst (Col.) Johannes Steinhoff. This was Schallmoser’s
fourth ‘collision’ of five claimed victories in the Me 262. He survived on each occasion which earned
him the nickname of ‘The Rammer’. The bomber crashed near Babisnau, south of Dresden, Germany.  MACR 14172