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Henry Maxham attended high school for three years and was a locomotive fireman at the Standard Oil Company before he joined the Air Corps of the Regular Army in Hartford, Connecticut on 18 December 1941.

After completing 52 missions, he was sent back to the United States but volunteered for active duty again and was sent to England.

At the time he was killed, he had completed more than 70 missions.

After bombs away, the airplane was hit by approximately fifteen FW-190 fighters and the aircraft then went into a spin. The pilot was able to get the aircraft under control at about 15,000 feet. At that time the aircraft was on fire and the engines were running away. When reaching the Belgian border it was again attacked by five Fw-190's. The plane was still under partial control but the pilot gave the order to bail out.

Only two crew members survived and were taken prisoner. Seven men were killed.

The attack and crash was witnessed by the then six year old Victor Yansenne. Through all the years that came, he made sure the land stayed untouched. In june 2013, he contacted the community of Manhay and a group of researchers was called in to find out what plane it was and who was in it. In november 2017 the group identified the lost B-24.

On 10 October 2018 a monument was revealed at the spot of the crash.