Mission: 12/16/1944
Pilot: H.C. Coffman
Aircraft: 42-97232 - G. I. Issue

On route back, after bombing target, aircraft went North around heavy clouds at 23,000 feet. Low on oxygen and gas, aircraft broke from formation on way back to base. The aircraft crashed into the North Sea. All KIA. On 14 May 1945 the body of the co-pilot, 2nd Lt Leonard W. Beadle, washed up at Zoutelande, Netherlands, near beach post 14. None of the other 8 crew members were ever found.

Person	Status	Role
Harold C. Coffman	KIA	Pilot
Leonard W. Beadle	KIA	Co-Pilot
Thomas J. Reid	KIA	Navigator
Neil E. Vediner	KIA	Bombardier
Dominick J. Lanni	KIA	Radio Operator
Edward W. Gallagher	KIA	Top Turret/Engineer
Robert W. Pellow	KIA	Ball Turret Gunner
William E. Hooser	KIA	Waist Gunner
John J. Jones	KIA	Tail Gunner