42-109618.Over Jever Air Base.

1st Lt Eldon C. Frobish was the pilot of B-24J 42-109618, 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group. He was reported MIA following the mission of 4 November 1944. German records indicate the aircraft crashed near Voslapp and that most crew members not recovered were drowned. His status was annotated K/A (Killed in Action) on the MACR cover sheet.

2nd Lt Edward W. Spedding served as co-pilot aboard B-24J 42-109618 on the mission of 4 November 1944. He was reported MIA and annotated K/A on the MACR cover sheet. German records confirm the aircraft came down in the Jadebusen tidal flats north of Wilhelmshaven; crew members not recovered from the wreck were reported drowned.

2nd Lt Frederick E. McKanna served as navigator on B-24J 42-109618. He was reported MIA on 4 November 1944 and annotated K/A on the MACR cover sheet. His body was recovered from the Jadebusen on 12 November 1944. His identification tag (serial 0-719115, T43-44, A P) was transmitted to Evaluation Center West, Oberursel, along with a photograph, per German document KU-3294. German records of 17 November 1944 (EU-3294) confirm McKanna was among the dead found and was buried at the Garrison Cemetery Wittsund.

2nd Lt Robert W. Rager was the bombardier aboard B-24J 42-109618 on 4 November 1944. He was reported MIA and annotated K/A on the MACR cover sheet. No identification tags for Rager appear in the German documents recovered with this MACR, suggesting his body was not among those retrieved from the crash site at Voslapp.

T/Sgt Lupe H. Lara served as engineer aboard B-24J 42-109618 on the mission of 4 November 1944. He was reported MIA and annotated K/A on the MACR cover sheet. His body was recovered from the Jadebusen on 12 November 1944. His identification tag (serial 19176766, T43-44, O P) was transmitted to Evaluation Center West per German document KU-3294, and his burial at Garrison Cemetery Wittsund is confirmed by EU-3294.

S/Sgt Lloyd O. Calcut was a gunner aboard B-24J 42-109618. He was the sole survivor of the crew to be captured; his status on the MACR is annotated "EUS" (believed to indicate captured/prisoner status) rather than K/A. German document EU-3294 (17 November 1944) from Air Base Command Jever specifically identifies Calcut as captured, linking him along with the recovered dead to the Liberator that crashed near Voslapp on 4 November 1944. His identification tag (serial 36182223, T43, O P) was among those recovered. A family address — Fred Calcut, RFD 2, Lachine, Michigan — appears on the identification tag record page.

S/Sgt Richard C. Hurlburt was a gunner aboard B-24J 42-109618. He was reported MIA on 4 November 1944 and annotated K/A on the MACR cover sheet. His identification tag does not appear among those transmitted in German documents KU-3294 or EU-3294, suggesting his body was not recovered from the Jadebusen. German records note the remaining crew were drowned.

S/Sgt Donald A. McArthur was a gunner aboard B-24J 42-109618. He was reported MIA on 4 November 1944 and annotated K/A on the MACR cover sheet. His identification tag does not appear among those transmitted in the German documents, suggesting his body was not recovered from the crash site at Voslapp. German records note the crew not otherwise accounted for were drowned.