B-17G #42-31968 'Miss Irish' returned from a mission to Marquise/Mimoyecques, Fance and made an emergency landing at Raydon after taking a direct hit from an 88mm in the radio room on 19 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down by Flak on the Merseburg mission 29 July 1944 in AC #42-31537 "Buffalo Gal". Crashed Punschrau, Germany. On the William T. Fitzroy page at https://100thbg.com/index.php?option=com_bombgrp&view=personnel&id=1648… , Fitzroy states he saw 12 Americans hanged and shot by the Germans on 29 July 1944 after bailing out. Among them were Ira Arnold, Robert Dykeman and Floyd Douglas from his crew. Page 6 of German report KU-2601 at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/147892518 mentions that Ira Arnold was found cremated in the debris of the crashed plane and first buried on 30 July 1944 as “unknown” at the cemetery of Hassenhausen, 5km West of Bad Kösen... Killed in Action (KIA)