FINAL APPROACH
In a photograph taken sometime in 1944, Frank, a, a Consolidated B-24H Liberator. The big four-engine bomber, tail number 41-29266, belonged to the 741st Bomb Squadron of the 455th Bomb Group, 304th Bomb Wing, and was based at San Giovanni Field in Foggia, Italy. Renamed , the Liberator was lost on July 27, 1944, when a Focke-Wulf Fw-190 shot it down during a mission to Budapest. Five of the crew were killed and five, including pilot Maxwell B. Gates, were taken prisoner. There is no record of the fate of Frank.