Delivered Cheyenne 10/8/43; Gr Isle 31/8/43; Assigned 413BS/96BG [MZ-O] Snetterton 5/9/43; Missing in Action Frankfurt 29/1/44 with Lou Kandl, Co-pilot: Branden Britt, Navigator: Bob Stanton, Bombardier: Albt Combs, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Knapp, Radio Operator: Bob Scanlon, Ball turret gunner: Theo Wagner, Waist gunner: Aaron Shoop (8 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Theo Brown,Tail gunner: Chas Harborough (2 Prisoner of War); mid air collision with Me109, crashed Gusenburg, 14 miloes SE of Trier/Eifel, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2377. SKYLARK.



"During the heavy air fights on 29 January 1944 the B-17 bomber of American pilot Darrell C. Sisler was hit by fire from German fighter pilot Kurt Clemens of III./JG 3, got off course and collided with the bomber of pilot Louis C. Kandl. The Sisler plane went down near Gusenburg, Kandl’s ship crashed not far from there, near Hermeskeil. In these crashes 5 of Sisler’s men, including Sisler himself, were KIA. From the Kandl crew 8 members were killed, including Kandl himself."