1. It is requested that Sergeant Nicolette be interrogated with reference to any information which he may know concerning the whereabouts of Second Lieutenant John S. Murphy.
    
2. Lieutenant Murphy was the navigator on the B-17 bomber of which Sergeant Nicolette was the waist gunner, and was reported missing in action 10 April 1945, on a mission to Brandenburg, Germany.

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1. Sgt Nicolette was assigned to the 486th Bombardment Group, 832nd Squadron, and was assigned to crew of Lt. K. P. Dolan on a mission to Bradenburg, Germany on 10 April 1945.
    
2. Sgt Nicolette further stated that aircraft received a direct flak hit in the left wing and #1, 2 and 3 engines immediately went out. The order to abandon airplane was given by the pilot and all nine crew members bailed out, Sgt Nicolette having counted nine parachutes in the air on his descent. The approximate location was near the town of Eisleben, 30 miles west of Magdeburg, Germany.
    
3. All crew members landed in the same general area. Sgt Nicolette and Sgt DeMan, ball turret gunner, and Sgt Cobert, radio operator, were captured by Luftwaffe personnel who took them into the town of Eisleben. The other six members of the crew, Lieutenants Dolan, Lamer, Murphy, and Sgts Maxim, Marks and Sarackos, who ere some distance away were captured by Wehrmacht troops.
    
4. Sgt Nicolette had no positive casualty information on Lt. Murphy. However, he was later informed by lt. Dolan, the pilot, that Lt. Murphy made a successful parachute jump and was alright upon landing. In a letter from Sgt Maxim to Sgt Nicolette, the former stated that he and Lt. Murphy were together in a jail in the town of Hornhausen but were seperated when the Lieutenant and the others were marched away in the direction of Magdeburg. As far as Sgt Nicolette knows, this was the last time any of the crew saw Lt. Murphy.
    
5. The pilot, 1st LT. K. P. Dolan, [serial number], is thought to be presently in Frankfurt, Germany in the vicinity assigned to the 322nd Bomb Group, 449 Bomb Squadron, APO 140, New York City. Sgt Nicolette believed that Lt. Dolan chose to remain in Germany in order to try to gain some information about his missing crew members.
    

FOR THE COMMANDING OFFICER