Though this may not look like a successful landing, the crew who brought her in considered it to be very much so. Hit by A/A fire on a bomb run over Formosa, MISS LEADING, B-24J #42-100204 had come in on two engines, sans hydraulics, flown by the severely wounded co-pilot, Lt. Robert Morgan. In the pilot's seat, Lt. Robert S. Edgar, the bombardier, helped by providing additional pressure to the controls. Lt. Charles E. Critchfield, the pilot, had suffered severe fractures to his right arm and leg from the same burst that had hit Morgan. Injured also, but less severely, were the flight engineer, Lloyd A. Watson and radio operator Benjamin D. Oxley. With no brakes, parachutes were used to slow down the plane which had stopped just short of the end of the runway at Laog Strip in northern Luzon. Also praying for a safe descent were navigator, Lt. R. E. Grey; armorer gunner, Norman Reno; turret gunner, Elmo Barron; nose gunner, Curtis S. Brotherton; and tail gunner, Joseph J. Arnold.