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S/Sgt Harry S. Carlson attended college before he joined the Air Corps of the U.S. Army Reserve in Nashville, Tennessee on 13 April 1943.

Sgt Bartolomeo Zanotto:
Aircraft B-17G 42-107075 and B-17G 42-31542 were last seen just past the I. P. and during the bomb run or about 7 minutes before bombs away. The two aircraft were flying on our right. It appeared that aircraft B-17G 42-107075 got in the prop wash of an aircraft ahead or the aircraft momentarily was out of control for he slipped to his left and his left wing crashed into the right horizontal stabilizer of aircraft B-17G 42-31542. Each aircraft then pulled to the outside, 075 to the right and 542 to the left. At this point the tail section of aircraft 542 broke off at about the main entrance door and rocketed about 200 feet upward, then it went down in a diving spin and went out of sight into clouds. Aircraft 075 went down in a slow fat spin and when last seen appeared to be pulling out of dive and leveling off. He then was last from view in the clouds. No parachutes were seen to come from either of these aircraft.

He had no time to bail out.