Delivered Cheyenne 17/2/44; Gr Island 4/3/44; Grenier 22/3/44; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-L] Polebrook 6/4/44; 508BS [YB-L]; Missing in Action {5m} Metz 24/4/44 with Howard Evans, Co-pilot: Jim Duffy, Navigator: Joe Norton, Bombardier: Bob McFarlane, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Epley, Radio Operator: Vernon Skeen, Ball turret gunner: Merle Diller, Waist gunner: Ron Pope, Waist gunner: Glen Joiner,Tail gunner: Orin Vance (10 Returned to Duty); flak, ditched Channel off Ramsgate, Kent, rescued by UK ASR..