2nd Lt Ewell Ross McCright, bombardier of the B-17 41-24567 “Beats Me”, took off from station 107 in Molesworth, Cambridgeshire, UK on a bombing run over the submarine pens of Lorient. McCright was "on loan" to replace Lt Saiz. The plane, named from the “Beats me” shrugs of the crew when asked what they wanted the name to be, was hit over the target area by a bomb dropped from a friendly aircraft that took out the tail and killed Stevens. Flipped upside down, the pilot managed to right them again but then both he and his co-pilot were killed by Fw-190 fighter attacks as the formation scattered to avoid further mishaps. The plane nosed over and slowly spun down to the forest floor around 1350, but not before three crew members bailed out, including McCright. He was taken prisoner and sent to Stalag 7A in Moosburg, Bavaria (48-12). While in prison, he kept ledgers of atrocities and injuries sustained by the detainees, smuggling them from camp to camp instead of food.

After the war, a movie was made about this POW camp, "The Great Escape" starring Steve McQueen and, James Garner. While in this camp, McCright kept a ledger on all the American Personnel. This ledger proved to be invaluable to the War Department later, in the search for casualties (records of the war injuries were found in this ledger.) McCright and, the other POW's were marched to Mooseburg, Germany, where they were rescued by General Patton's Army. He was discharged from the Army and, entered law school and, practiced law in Benton, until his death on April 24, 1990. He died on April 24, 1990 at the age of 72 and is now buried in the Salem Cemetery, East End, Saline County, Arkansas, USA.