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S/Sgt Joe C. Powell Jr. graduated from Highland Park High School. He attended Texas A & M College.
He enlisted in the Air Corps on 15 October 1942 in San Antonio, Texas.

The aircraft was attacked by approximately 50 enemy aircraft, ME-109's and FW-190's, in the Hannover area. The plane dropped out of formation and 8 chutes were seen to open. The aircraft was seen to go down through the undercast still under control. In contrast with the testimony that 8 chutes were seen, the entire crew was lost in the crash. The bodies of George F. Guy, Vincent Kalata, Marshall W. Johnson, Laurence H. Nursall (this is probably wrong, because his body was later recovered at the crash site, it is most likely that this is Louis W. Brooks) and one unidentified body were buried at the Jewish Cemetery of Hoya/Weser on 21 May 1944.

After the war the bodies of Kalata and S/Sgt Joe C. Powell Jr. (probably the unidentified body) were reburied at Ardennes American Military Cemetery.

The bodies of Lloyd H. Herbert, William L. Covington, Harold M. Bachman, Timothy N. Tarpey and Laurence H. Nursall were found 58 years later by the German businessman Enrico Schwartz and his partner Swetlana Reimer of the Missing Allied Air Crew Research Team. The discovered crewmen were returned to the United States and reburied at Arlington National Cemetery on 18 November 2002. The memorial marker at Arlington mentions the names of all the deceased crew members.