Margraten Plot O - Row 9 - Grave 2
337th Bomber Squadron, 96th Bomber Group, Heavy
The young pilot knew the plane was going down, so he ordered those passengers
who could to bail out. The 23-year-old Rock Island airman refused to abandon the crippled craft himself, hoping desperately he could somehow save the plane and its cargo of wounded soldiers. He struggled at the controls, but, within minutes, the airplane smashed into a ditch in Madgeburg, France, and burst into flames.