On August 20th, 1944, after having bombed without success the bridges of Remoulins, a squadron of P-38-J Lightnings of the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, led by Major Ed LaClare, flushed out a large German road convoy between Nîmes and Beaucaire. The P-38s attacked immediately with their onboard weapons. They encountered heavy flak and the plane of 2nd Lt. Walter Oliver St John was hit. The young pilot jumped and his parachute opened (MACR 7978). As the Lightning burned out near the Moulin Gazay, the pilot lay unconscious near Mas Alméras. A Luftwaffe van left the convoy and went in search of the pilot. The occupants of the van pushed away the witnesses who had come to help, took St John's body, and returned the way they had come. The body has not been found to this day and St John still appears on the wall of the "MIA" in the cemetery of Draguignan.