Delivered Cheyenne 25/9/43; Gr Island 9/10/43; Long Beach 13/10/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-S] Snetterton 15/10/43; Missing in Action Frankfurt 29/1/44 with Darrell Sisler, Co-pilot: Clarry Johnson, Navigator: Montidier Estes, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Lewis, Waist gunner: Tom Price, Waist gunner: Larry Rotholtz (6 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Jim Kelly, Radio Operator: Phil Rousse, Ball turret gunner: Art Brown,Tail gunner: Walter Wilde (4 Prisoner of War); mid air coll with 42-31436 (96BG), disintegrated and crashed Gusenburg, near Frankfurt, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2381.



"During the heavy air fights on 29 January 1944 the B-17 bomber of American pilot Darrell C. Sisler was hit by fire from German fighter pilot Kurt Clemens of III./JG 3, got off course and collided with the bomber of pilot Louis C. Kandl. The Sisler plane went down near Gusenburg, Kandl’s ship crashed not far from there, near Hermeskeil. In these crashes 5 of Sisler’s men, including Sisler himself, were KIA. From the Kandl crew 8 members were killed, including Kandl himself."