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2nd Lt John R. Crookston graduated from Logan High School in 1941 and attended Utah State Agricultural College for one year.

He joined the Air Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve in Fresno, California on 1 March 1943.
The airplane was hit by flak over the target but continued the return flight with the formation until reaching coordinates 53°20'N-05°50'E at 1336 hours. At this point the plane went down under control and appeared to be leaking gasoline. Dutch civilians saw it crash and no parachutes were observed. They also stated that the plane could not be approached because of intense fire, explosions of ammunition and the presence of Germans.

The entire crew of nine men was killed, from which eight men are remembered at the Walls of the Missing at Margraten. Only the remains of the bombardier, Edward R. Bromage, were recovered after it washed ashore near Eenrum.

The crash occured on very marshy ground off the bank of a canal and due to the speed of the aircraft, it buried itself deeply in the ground. In August 1950, an American Graves Registration search team, although hampered in excavating the location by onrushing water from the canal, dug to a dept of about twenty-two feet wiithout locating any remains.