Took part in Operation Tidal Wave, the raid on Ploesti on 1 August 1943.

K for King, commanded by Robert E Miller, led the fourth wave into the dark and fiery target. On his wings were the aircraft of Lasco and that of 1st Lt Scrivner. But when Miller emerged from the target, neither of his wingmen were there. Several crews reported seeing this plane, along with two others, caught in a terrific explosion as they were approaching their target, and then not seeing any of the three ships later. Thomas E. Scrivner’s ship came out in flames with the pilots fighting for a crash-landing. They sledded into a wheat field, but before the slide was spent, the ship exploded into a hundred foot sphere of flame. None of the men that the pilots had so valiantly struggled to save managed to come out of it alive.