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S/Sgt Holgate J. Dean was an actor.

He volunteered for the Air Corps of the Army of the United States in Boston, Massachusetts on 23 July 1942.

The airplane was shot down by flak. Eight crew members were taken prisoner and survived the war. One crew member was killed instantly.

S/Sgt Dean was dead on the scene and buried locally. His body was later disinterred, identified, and reburied. T/Sgt Harland was medically treated but died in a hospital the same day.

Statement of a German civilian, named Hermann Runge:
"On the 25th of July 1943 at 15:30 an American four-motored bomber crashed near my house in the woods. The plane had been attacked by fighters and burned in the air. It circled in the air, and I saw several crew members parachute from the burning plane before the crash. The plane burned completely when it crashed. One body was found in the wreckage, totally charred, and was taken to the civilian cemetery in Kellinghusen. There were no personal effects found on the body. There, the deceased American was buried by German soldiers with military honors. There were no explosions, so bombs were released prior to the crash. I heard later that two of the crew who parachuted were given medical treatment at the civilian hospital in Kellinghusen. I do not know what happened to the rest of the crew."

There is a contradiction about the place of the crash. Some records state that the plane crashed in Uetersen, others mention a town called Kellinghusen.

He is remembered at the Oak Grove Cemetery in Fall River, Massachusetts.