Crew of B-24 41-29439 shot down on 29 September 1944. Back row, left to right: Staff Sergeant Owen Killborn, Lieutenant Sheldon Adler, Lieutenant Caulk, Technical Sergeant Paul Miller, Technical Sergeant Samuel Dragoon and Lieutenant Marshall Lewis. Front row left to right: Staff Sergeant Dwight O Foster, Lieutenant Herbert Minard, Staff Sergeant Thomasset and Staff Sergeant Albert Spencer. Note: Picture was incorectly labeled on Albert Spencer. Should be John R. Spencer. Also The story is a bit different. It is not known for sure if the plane was shot down. The mission was to transport fuel to tanks in the desert for Patton. John Spencer (Not Albert) and the communications officer were excused from the mission at the last minute granted shore leave privileges. The plane took off but never returned from its mission and crew members from other returning B-24’s reported a large explosion in the sky in the general direction of "Nobody’s Baby". It is not typical for a plane to erupt in an explosion if shot down so it was surmised that the stainless steel gas cans being transported in the fuselage had ignited from static electricity or other means.