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Aircraft 42-102498, piloted by Lt Thompson was flying second place in echolon on our right wing. He was well up in formation when we went over the target at which time the flak was intense and fairly accurate. At this time we were hit by fighters from one o´clock slightly high and also one fighter from eleven o´clock over the top of our plane. I presume this latter fighter was the one that hit Thompson´s ship. A twenty M.M. shell hit aircraft 42102498 on the left hand side of the cockpit between the pilot´s seat and the upper turret. His plane dropped back and lost altitude. When he was about fifteen hundred yards in back of the formation he was attacked by seven fighters. One of the fighters was shot down by his crew. The pilot of the fighter bailed out. When Lt Thompson was attacked by the fighters he was using Falling Leaf Evasive Action. He followed us to about one hundred and fifty miles of the French coast at a lower altitude. The last I saw of the plane it was still following us with all four engines running.
The plane crashed near Aken, Elbe river in Germany. 6 Crewmembers were taken POW, 3 crewmembers died and were initially buried at the cemetery of Aken. Victor remained missing. He was supposed to be drowned in the river Elbe or he could land in the wood north of the Elbe River.

S/Sgt Victor Frisbie is remembered at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, King County, Washington.