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T/Sgt David L. Wilson was an attendant at a filling station and parking lot before he joined the Air Corps of the Regular Army at fort George G. Meade, Maryland on 6 September 1941.

T/Sgt Mario D. Garcia, one of the surviving crew members, stated after the war that the airplane was attacked by enemy fighters about two minutes before the I.P.. The n°2 and n°3 engines, oxygen system and intercom system were knocked out. The salvoed their bombs, went down to about 14,000 feet and turned back, heading for home by themselves. They seemed to be doing alright with only the radio operator lightly wounded on a finger. Probably over Luxembourg they flew trough a snow cloud which caused the plane to go out of control and go into a steep dive. When the plane was under control for a couple of seconds, they all bailed out.

Eight crew members survived and were taken prisoner, two were killed.

Members of the Belgian Resistance found T/Sgt Wilson's body on 15 March 1944 and buried him. Apparently his parachute was open but he had struck a tree and was killed.

The plane itself crashed in the woods north of Serinchamps.