As usual, however, these results were not achieved without a price; fourteen Liberators were lost, including three from the 491st. "I was flying next to
Brown (1st Lt. James W. Brown) and noticed his #3 engine was on fire. I called him and told him about the fire. Brown answered 'Roger' and seemed completely cool as if he had the situation under control. Then a second or two later his ship (42-50749) blew up with a sickening explosion. He wasn't more than 50 feet off the ground at the time." (Kohl) Lt. Paul Fox's plane (44-40162) was seen to pull up into a steep climb with its bomb bay on fire. The pilot was evidently trying to reach a safe bail out altitude, but the plane went out of control, rolled over on its back and crashed hopelessly in an ugly burst of black smoke and orange flame. First Lt. Andy T. Wilson reported his GREEN HORNET (44-40286) was severely damaged by ground fire and he was going to crashland approximately ten miles west of the Rhine. No one escaped from any of the three crashes.