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Douglas A-20J goes down over France, 1944
https://www.416th.com/missions/mission46.html
From Wikimedia:
English: U.S. Army Air Forces Douglas A-20J-10-DO Havoc (S/N 43-10129, "5C-I") of the 671st BS, 416th Bomb Group after being hit by flak on Mission 46 over Beauvoir, Manche, France, 12 May 1944. The crew was Pilot 1Lt Robert E. Stockwell (KIA); B/N 2Lt Albert Jedinak (POW); Gunners S/Sgt Hollis Alfred Foster (KIA) and S/Sgt Egon Willie Rust (POW) (MACR 4634).
From Reddit:
Douglas A-20J-10-DO (S/N 43-10129) of the 409th Bomb Group after being hit by flak over Germany on May 12, 1944. It burst into flames and crashed a mile west of the target. 2 crew members were KIA and 2 managed to bail out and become POWs.
Killed in action were the pilot and one of the gunners.
Pilot: 1LT Robert Edmond Stockwell https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41836890/robert-edmond-stockwell
Gunner: SSGT Hollis Alfred Foster https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41836835/hollis-alfred-foster
Navigator/Bombardier and the second gunner survived. The MACR report page is a terrible scan though so I'm having trouble reading their name.
edit: found them.
Albert Jedinak (died in 1994 age 75): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147082795/albert-jedinak
Egon W Rust (died in 2002 age 78): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140714038/egon-willie-rust
The navigator (Jedinak) ended up marring the pilot's widow in 1946.

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