21 December 1943 in B-24 42-72878 "Miss Emmy Lou II" while on a combat training mission, all 4 engines cut out. Made a forced landing at Richard's Farm, Bradenham. 4 suffered major injuries. 12 RTD. Richard Butler crew.



Eslocker joined the Air Force in March 1941 and went on to do a six month radio course. By the spring of 1942 he was flying the B-24 doing regular shifts training pilots and sub-hunting in the Gulf of Mexico. One day - following a night in Shreveport Louisiana -he missed his morning call, lost his sergeant's stripes and was transferred to the 90th BG. They May however he was ordered back to the 44th BG for a special mission, to seek out a German WX station in Greenland. He eventually made it back to the 44th at Shipdham permanently and got his sergeant stripes back.