On 18 DEC 1944, two B-26s of the 394th BG were involved in a mid-air collision (Category 4 Damage) over Epinoy, France (ALG A-75). Both flight crews perished. except Radio-Gunner, T/Sgt Charles Lipscomb. He was ejected from his seat while waiting to taxi at RAF Boreham. At the very last moment, a Bombardier-Navigator, 2nd Lt. Milton Waters, replaced Lipscomb so that he could accrue the points needed to end his tour of duty and return home to California. Waters is buried at Golden Gate National Cemetery, in California, along with both of his parents, who served in WW I.