Assigned to the 793rd BS/468th BG on 19 February 1944 and left the states on 10 April and arrived at Kharagpur, India, ten days later. While returning from a mission to Singapore on 5 November 1944, and while flown by Col Ted Faulkner (an experienced bomber pilot who commanded the 468th BG) the bomber crashed 75 miles off the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. The whole crew of eleven was lost.
