B-17 42-3265 'Holy Mackeral' collided with another aircraft on 16 December 1943. Plane crashed into North Sea. Prisoner of War (POW).

Lowell Rogers was 18 when his plane, 'The Holy Mackeral , was returning from a mission, and was brought down, into the North Sea, by the debris from a plane exploding nearby. Lowell was the only survivor, and was captured by the Nazis and became a POW from Dec 1943 until the end of the war. 
His mother Maude Rogers and sister Jeanie, had received the telegram notifying them that he was MIA. In a written account, Jeanie said that "when the second telegram arrived, I yelled to mother that one had come and to BRACE HERSELF. Mother took it and ran to her bedroom , while I signed. I ran in to see her sobbing on the bed and screamed for joy when I read that my brother was still alive." 
Lowell lost 50 lbs during his prison camp internment, going from a sleek 185 lbs to a gaunt 135. His mother sent him many packages, but its not likely he received them. One of the packages contained a sketch book and colored pencils along with the food items.