Pvt Jack A. Maxwell, left waist gunner of the B-24 41-29177 “Ginger”, took off from Bungay in Suffolk, UK on a bombing mission over the Farben chemical works in Ludwigshafen. Maxwell was a ground crewman filling in for the mission. Just after bombs away, the plane was hit by flak. Some of the engines cut out, dropping the plane to 10000 feet. Fifty miles later, the crew set the plane on a course to avoid the nearby town of Schoeneck and bailed out, shot at by machine gun fire all the way down. Maxwell was part of six crewmen rounded up and shot by SS auxiliaries.