Mission: 12/16/1943 Bremen (Germany)
Pilot: 42-30255} - Lonesome Polecat II
Aircraft: F.A. Delbern

West of the target with number 3 engine feathered, aircraft left the formation under control. 3 crew members bailed out over Germany (POW); 5 crew members bailed out over Texel Island (4 POW and Eugene Darter MIA). Pilot (Delbern) and Co-Pilot (Neff) went down with the plane into the ocean about a mile off the northern coast of Texel Island.