A letter written by Sgt. Harry Everhart on 1 Aug.1946:
"On September 11,1944,around 5 o'clock in the morning we started out for a bombing raid on an oil plant. About noon we ran into heavy enemy opposition and in about ten minutes of fighting our plane was hit. As I had received no word to bail out, I stayed with my guns. I heard S/Sgt. P. L. Olson exclaim that he had shot a plane himself. When I was aware that our plane was going to crash it was too late to parachute out so I stayed where I was as I supposed the rest of the crew did. From there on I do not recall anything until I woke up and found that I was surrounded by Germans. I must have been thrown out of the plane as I was a good ways from where I could see a plane burning which I supposed was ours. The plane crashed in a wooded area and from what I could see was damaged very badly. As for the rest of the crew I didn't see or hear anything from them. I Was then taken to a hospital in Nuenstein. I stayed at the hospital for almost 12 weeks and when I was able to leave for a prison camp I asked the interrogation officer if he knew anything of my crew, and he told me they were all dead."