Delivered Cheyenne 8/12/42; Morrison 6/2/43; Assigned 368BS/306BG [BO- ] Thurleigh 8/2/43. Missing in Action on the 5 April 1943 mission to the ERLA Frontreparaturwerk (Front Repair Works), Antwerp, Belgium, with Pilot Clarence E. Fischer, Co-pilot: James Crouch Jr, Navigator: Joseph E. Consolmagno, Bombardier: William A. Moses, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Francis L. Eastham, Radio Operator: Henry B. Compton, Ball turret gunner: Walter R. Kuczynski, Left Waist gunner: Lee Sanders, Right Waist gunner: Norris R. Phifer, Tail gunner: William C. Rhodes. All 10 made Prisoners of War. Shot down by Major Priller, crashed Wilrijk, Antwerp, Belgium. No Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) issued for this loss. After the mission, the Belgian Ambassador to the U.S. protested about the inaccurate bombing that resulted in many civilian casualties (936 dead, among them hundreds of Belgian factory workers and 209 schoolchildren).