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S/Sgt Harry B. Mohring attended Metuchen High School before he joined the Air Corps of the National Guard in New Brunswick, New Jersey on 16 September 1940. We was among the group who formed the National Guard Air Force in New Brunswick, which later became the 119th Pursuit Squadron. He had taken an interest in planes shortly after graduation and had been flying for nearly eight years.

S/Sgt Loran G. Wood:
On 6 May 1944, I was occupying the position of tail gunner on Lt Plemon’s plane, which was flying in number five position of D flight. Lt Sears plane was flying number two position in F flight, on the left and to the rear of our plane. His plane continued in formation until approximately one minute before bombs away, when a direct hit by flak on the left wing severed off the wing from number one engine out. The plane immediately went into a short spin, then turned end over end, and finally fell off on the right wing and spun downwards. I watched the plane fall approximately five thousand feet, until it was obscured from my view. At that time it was burning badly on the left wing where the flak had hit and no parachutes had I seen emerge from the plane. That is all I know of this accident.

T/Sgt George Skrba Jr.:
Either he was hit by flak when the plane was hit, or he could not move because of the centrifugal force incurred by the action of the plane in an extremely tight flat spin. We had lost a wing, right at No.2 engine. A B-24 does not fly good on one wing.