Carl E. Hite.

Hite jumped from the flight deck with his knees under his chin and tumbled approximately 2,000 feet before pulling the ripcord at around 10,000 feet. He looked for other chutes after his opened but saw none. During his fall he observed an aircraft burning on the ground. He tried to work his chute away from a nearby village but came down in the outskirts and had to kick away from a brick wall to avoid landing on top of it. His chute draped over the upper branches of a tree.

A French family — a man, his wife, and six children — came out of a nearby house and helped him out of his equipment. A small crowd of eight or nine people gathered. Having trouble communicating, he produced his escape maps and French phrase card. A young man arrived, waved the crowd away, and told Hite to put the maps away. After taking down the chute from the tree the young man led him into the fields and hid him in a thicket. Food was brought to him by people he had not previously met, and he was told to wait until the young man returned.

After dark the young man took him to a nearby farmhouse, provided French civilian clothing, then drove him into Brou where he was fed and put to bed. The next morning the rest of the evading crew arrived. In Paris the group stayed at Dr. Alice Willem's home, where Hite also met a British pilot named 'Ronnie' who had escaped from Germany. The group traveled the evasion route through France to Spain and returned to the UK on 24 February 1944.