42-6282 - 395th Bomb Squadron - Delivered to the USAAF on 12/23/43 - Model B-29-5-BW - Departed Pratt for India on 4/2/44 and arrived at Chakulia, India on 4/14/44.

June 5, 1944, mission to Bangkok, ditched in Bay of Bengal, no fuel on return from Bangkok. Sol Fishman, William Plattenburg, Cleo Baker and Norman Brothers were KIA during the ditching in the Bay of Bengal. MACR 6602

Crew

Capt. John Sanders - AC
William Burrows - CP
William Eckelman - N
Sol Fishman - B - KIA
Carl Moore - FE
William Plattenburg - R - KIA
Charles Mack - RO
James J. Drnek - CFC
D.H. Capshaw - RG
Cleo Baker - LG - KIA
Norman Brothers - TG - KIA

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