For 6 Mar 44 mission see MACR #3014, Microfiche #1019. They were flying A/C #42-30170 which had flown under three names: Torchy 2nd, HOT SPIT, and MISS CARRIAGE. On 6 Mar 44, Lt Frank C. Laver was the Navigator and a POW; Sgt Wilbur Trembley, on his first mission, was the ROG and a POW; T/Sgt George W. Burton was the TTE and a POW; S/Sgt Anthony Ruda was the RWG and a POW, and S/Sgt Louis P. Savell was the BTG and a POW. The Germans buried Lt Montgomery (Coy I.) on 10 Mar 1944, noting the cause of death as crash/ burns...

S/SGT JOHN A. MILLER COMPLETED 35 MISSIONS ON 17 JULY 44 AND HAD HIT "BIG B" SIX TIMES, 5 WITH LT LAWRENCE TOWNSEND'S CREW.  HE HAD SEEN COL. KELLY'S SHIP "BLOW UP", HE HAD FLOWN THE FIRST RUSSIAN SHUTTLE MISSION, WAS CREDITED WITH SHOOTING DOWN A Me 410, WAS AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS, AIR MEDAL, DFC, AND HE WAS STILL ONLY 17 YEARS OLD "GOING ON FORTY".  HE FALSIFIED HIS AGE WHEN HE ENLISTED IN INDIANA IN OCTOBER 1942.  HE CELEBRATED HIS 18TH BIRTHDAY ON JULY 22, 1944" (Century Bombers) 

Eyewitness Account:
"At 1215 hours just north of Hanover an A/C believed to be #170 was attacked by enemy fighters & was shot down. four or five chutes were seen. I.D. of this aircraft is not positive, it may have been #051." This by Lt. Ron Chadwick (Later flew for Delta Airlines)

349th Sqdn. Crew joined the 100th Gp on 28 Nov 1943.. Sgt Gordon Keon was the only enlisted man of this crew to participate in the Frankfurt mission of 4 FEB 44. Other aboard for this mission and their fate is a follows: George E. Toomey, ROG from the C. I. Montgomery Crew, S/Sgt Lola D. Florida, TTE a POW, William F. Kemp, WG and KIA, Harold F. Janderup, WG and a POW, and Richard A. Tangradi, TG and a POW. This aircraft suffered flak damage and three engines out over the German-Belgian border. The crew with the exception of William Kemp, who was apparently badly wounded, bailed out safely. Gordon Keon did sustain a flak wound in one arm. A statement by Theodore Kleinman after his return says the bail out occurred about 10 miles SSE of Turnhout, Belgium and continues: "After contacting the underground unit I was place in a house in Turnhout. Several day later I was told something in French concerning the rest of the crew. With my meager understanding of French, Kemp was unable to leave the ship due to severe wounds and he went down with the aircraft. A man was found by the Germans in the rear half of the ship with his head badly battered, but alive. I later received a report the man with head injury died. German records in the MACR file confirms a severely wounded airman found in the ship died in the hospital the following day.