B-24D - 42-40608 - The Vulgar Virgin - and it's command pilot, Lt. Claude A. Turner, and his crew, were all from the 8th Air Force, the 93rd Bomb Group, and the 328th Bomb Squadron in Britain. This airplane was Lt. Turners' assigned aircraft and was flown by him and his crew on Operation Tidal Wave, the large mission to destroy the German held oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania. Lt. Claude Turner and The Vulgar Virgin survived the mission damaged but with no casualties and was flown by Lt. Turner to Chorlu, Turkey, where he, his crew, and The Vulgar Virgin were all interned by the Turkish Air Force. The crew was later released back to the U.S. Army Air Forces. Turner and his bombardier escaped from the Turks and returned to the UK. - RTD . After returning to duty in Britain with the 8th Air force after the Ploesti mission, Lt. Turner and his crew, flying an 8th Air Force B-17 were shot down and killed over the North Sea by an FW-190 Focke Wulf fighter after a bombing mission to Bremen and Helgoland- KIA. Nov 13, 1943