Delivered Cheyenne 8/2/43; 94BG Pueblo 18/2/43; Salina 25/2/43; Brookley 18/3/43; Smoky Hill 23/3/43; Presque Is 7/4/43; Assigned 410BS/94BG [GL- ] Bassingbourn 17/4/43; Earls Colne 12/5/43; Missing in Action Kiel 13/6/43 with Capt Bolling H. Rawlinson (Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Capt Arthur Herbert, Navigator: Thomas Meeks, Bombardier: Leonard Levander, Flight Engineer/Top turret gunner: Edward H. Cameron, Radio Operator: Charles Morris, Ball Turret gunner: Harry Hilts, Left Waist Gunner: John Huzinec, Right Waist gunner: Benjamin Kaplan, Tail gunner: 2nd Lt. Charles Schultheis (9 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #2, crashed Pohnsdorf, near Preetz, seven miles SE of Kiel, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 15162. KLO KAY.

On June 13, 1943 the 4th Air Wing assigned 60 bombers to hit the U-boat pens at Kiel Germany. One of those planes was B-17 #42-29715 nicknamed Klo Kay. It was shot down by German fighter planes and crashed near Preetz, seven miles south-east of Kiel. The pilot became a POW. The other nine men, were killed. It was their first and only mission. Out of 60 planes on the mission, 21 others besides Klo Kay were shot down and another 24 returned to England damaged. Prior to this mission, the Army Air Force was of the opinion that the heavily armed B-17s would be able to hold their own. This mission proved that they would need fighter escorts.