Delivered Denver 3/11/43; Gr Island 12/11/43; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-K] Grafton Underwood 21/1/44; Missing in Action Hamm 19 September 1944 with Joe R. Carnes; co-pilot William G. Wyatt, Navigator: Alfred D. Benjamin; togglier Bob Chanter; Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Charles W. Ford; Radio Operator: Frank J. Shick; Waist gunner: Raymond A. Panici; Tail gunner: Gene Lucynski (8 evaded capture); Ball turret gunner: James B. King (Prisoner of War); severe flak damage, crashed near Binche, West of Charleroi, Belgium. No MACR. THE TREMBLIN’ GREMLIN.

According to an April 2006 posting by Navigator Benjamin, 4 wounded crew members were taken to Hospital Saint-Joseph in Gilly (Charleroi), Belgium as there was no US Army hospital facility yet near the crash site. Ball Turret Gunner King was the most seriously injured. After about 4 days, Benjamin and Waist Gunner Raymond Panici, wounded but able to walk, traveled to Charleroi to find an US Army officer who could get them transported to an American facility. 2 days later, all four wounded were driven to a field hospital and then evacuated by train to the General Hospital in Paris. Benjamin doesn't mention Chanter nor Lucynski in his posting.