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Sgt Burnie B. Goldson, Jr. was a driver for the Railway Express Agency before he enlisted at Fort Jackson, South Carolina on 31 July 1943.

At 1207 hours, at the I.P., enemy fighters attacked in mass formation from the rear and above, coming out of the clouds. The first attack reduced the Group strength to 2 B-17s (which two is undetermined). The fighters then returned and in another mass attack, using the same tactics, shot down the remaining two. Attacks were very aggressive and sudden.

No exact information of the attack is available because no B-17 of the Group concerned returned.

One crew member was taken prisoner, and eight men were killed. They were initially buried in a common grave at the local cemetery of Friesack, on 7 October 1944.