USAAF
5th AF
90th BG
320th BS

Pilot  1/Lt Jack E Volz, O-735707 (MIA/KIA)
Crew  2/Lt Martin P Murray, O-797914 (MIA/KIA)
Crew  2/Lt Regis E Dietz, O-798766 (MIA/KIA)
Crew  2/Lt William J Shryock, O-739001 (MIA/KIA)
Crew  2/Lt Edward J Lake, O-669326 (MIA/KIA)
Crew  T/Sgt Hollis R Smith, 18136424 (MIA/KIA)
Crew  T/Sgt Robert S Wren, 9114505 (MIA/KIA)
Crew  S/Sgt Frederick E Harris, 31133505 (MIA/KIA)
Crew  S/Sgt Berthold A Chastain, 34266040 (MIA/KIA)
Crew  S/Sgt Clyde L Green, 33296638 (MIA/KIA)
Crew  S/Sgt Claude A Ray, 18085253 (MIA/KIA)
Crew  S/Sgt Claude G Tyler, 33200253 (MIA/KIA)
Crashed  October 28, 1944

Mission History
Took off from Port Moresby on a reconassiance mission. Seven hours into the mission were directed to return to Dobudura due to bad weather at Port Moresby. Fighter Sector Command was tracking an aircraft in the Huon Bay area when it disappeared off the scope. This was assumed to be Jack Volz's aircraft, who had been previously repremanded for deliberately flying into bad weather. A search was made but no sign of the aircraft then, or later.

Wreckage
This bomber had crashed in the Sarawaget Mountain Range in Morobe Province in bad weather. A local found a dog tag and part of a wallet with part of Volz's ID card inside and presented to US Army CILHI around 2002. JPAC IE in March 2005. This is still an active MIA case.

References
Legacy of the 90th Bomb Group, page 70.
Thanks to P. Fazzini and Daniel Leahy for crew details

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