#42-40069

1st Lt. Phillips Gardner Huffman was lost on a flight on March 21, 1943, over the Hump on B-24 "The Pregnant Swan," #42-40069, while enroute from Pandaveswar, India to Kunming, China. During the flight there was no radio "advice" sent out from the crew indicating any trouble. The craft simply disappeared on this, their first, flight over the treacherous altitudes...

"Bob" Fensler grew up an active youth in the Tule Lake, California, area, as in this image, as a young hunter with his dog. Model airplanes hanging from the ceiling of Robert Fensler\'s bedroom in the 1930s. Capt. Robert Wilson Fensler, 425th Bomb Squadron, 308th Bomb Group, was tragically lost in 1943 while flying on a B-24, "The Pregnant Swan,"...