Delivered Denver 19/10/43; Gr Island 1/11/43; Assigned 570BS/390BG [DI-P] Framlingham 12/11/43; Missing in Action Chartres 2/3/44 with Everett Ferguson, Navigator: Ed Imblum, Radio Operator: Gene Wilusz, Waist gunner: Bill Conrad,Tail gunner: Bill Clark (5 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Wilson Jones (EVD-ret UK 1/6/44); Co-pilot: John Baker, Bombardier: Fred Shecter, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Archie Delong, Waist gunner: Theo McCarty (4 Prisoner of War); flak hit in tail blowing off pieces of vertical and horizontal stabs. as well as several feet of rear fuselage. A/c attempted to climb, stalled and dove down steeply and crashed E of Oisemont, 10 miles S of Abbeville, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 2886. OLE BASSER.