"This aircraft was 42-24704 of the 793rd

     Bomb Sqn. of the 468th Bomb Group, flying out of

 Kharagpur, India. It was lost on 11 January 1945.



 Crewmembers were:

 Pilot Maj. Donald J. Humphrey

 Command Pilot Lt. Col Robinson Billings

 Navig. Capt. Carl A. Hansman

 Bomb. 1st Lt. William F. Duffy

 Flight Eng. 1st Lt. Ernest C. Saltzman

 Radar 1st Lt. Martin J. Govednik

 Radio T/Sgt. Michael A. Kundrat

 Senior Gunner S/Sgt. John A. MacDonald, Jr.

 Left Gunner T/Sgt. Harold D. Gillett

 Right Gunner T/Sgt. Ralph C. Lindley

 Tail Gunner S/Sgt. Rouhier E. Spratt



 This was Humphrey's crew. Robinson was apparently

 with them as mission commander.



 Humphrey, Duffy, Saltzman, and Hansman managed

 to evade captivity, though Hansman died on

 14 February 1945. They managed to link up with

 a guerrilla group and spent the rest of the war

 with them.



 McDonald, Gillett, Govednik, and Lindley were ultimately captured and

 spent the rest of the war as POWs, I

 believe in the prison at Singapore.



 Spratt made it to the ground, but died of injuries

 the next day.



 Robinson and Kundrat were found dead near or

 in the crashed aircraft.



 The Missing Air Crew Report for this loss is

 #10879. I have a copy of it. Humphrey, by the

 way, was from Postville, Iowa. His previous

 aircraft, which was sent home as war weary in

 late December 1944, was named "Postville Express."

 Their new aircraft was apparently never named,

 although Humphrey referred to it as "Postville

 Express" in a postwar account.