The wreckage of Captain Raymond T. Swenson’s B-17C, Serial No. 40-2074, which burned in two after landing, following a Japanese fighter’s airborne machine gun attack that hit its flare storage box. Flight surgeon, Lieutenant William R. Schick was aboard Swenson’s aircraft, and with the crew members, escaped, was running to take cover, only to be fatally wounded by a ricocheting machine gun bullet from a strafing Japanese fighter.

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