2nd Lt Robert D. Couture, pilot of the P-51 Mustang 43-6895, took off from Station 122 Steeple Morden , Cambridgeshire UK on an escort mission for US bombers. Seeing a column of German vehicles going to Normandy just south of Nogent le Rotrou, his 16-plane squadron made three strafing runs. On the third, Lt Couture’s plane was hit by the Margon flak. Uninjured, he crashed and suffered a forehead gash. However, he was immediately taken in by a local farmer and the Resistance spirited him back to the UK.