Delivered Denver 20/12/43; 1SAG Langley 12/1/44; Mitchell 1/2/44; Assigned 413BS/96BG [MZ-B] Snetterton (PFF) 4/2/44; detailed to Framlingham (390BG) to pick up PFF crew for a mission to Rostock 11/4/44 with Don McGregor, Co-pilot: Ike Hightower, Navigator: Francis Uihlein, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Morgan, Waist gunner: Arthur Flint, Waist gunner: Jim McLean,Tail gunner: Jesse Graham; ground crew-Emmett Mathews*, ground crew-Nyle Smith* (9RTD all injured; Bombardier: Lt John Petrowski), Navigator: Lt George Petruchia, Radio Operator: Howell Thompson (3 Killed in Service); aircraft was shot down en route back to Snetterton by Me 109 night-fighter intruder, and crashed near church at Gt Glemham, Sfk., UK. (* these two groundcrew men were on flight for support and security for the PFF equipment while the aircraft was at Framlingham, some 32 civilians were also evacuated) Salvaged 13/4/44.



An account of this crash can be found in the Ian McLachlan/Russell Zorn book,

Eighth Air Force Bomber Stories. A small, private, memorial stands on the grounds of Glemham House.