According to a German report this plane was shot down "into the sea 20 km North of Wangerooge" one of the Frisian Islands and Norman Goodwin was recovered from the sea, taken to a hospital on the island of Norderney where an "amputation of his left thigh" was performed. Goodwin was subsequently returned to the U.S. John Brown was also picked up from the sea and sent to a hospital at Sanderbusch. Both Frank Podbielski and William Lucas were "recovered by Coastguard boat at 10.00 hours and transferred to Dulag Luft, Oberursel on 26 June 1943."

A statement made by Frank Podbielski in which he described the final minutes of his aircraft says, in part, "After 30 minutes of combat action, the top turret guns were silent. T/Sgt. Beck could have been wounded or killed. Sgt. Goodwin lay wounded on the floor of radio room, Sgt. Russo lay wounded to the right of the ball turret after administering first aid to Goodwin." * According to email received by Ed Cox (Lt Cox Nephew), Lt. George "Mutt" Cox survived the Bail out but died later in the POW camp. Also in this email, Lt Cox's sister states that Lt Cox told her the name of their aircraft was "Bar Fly".