Page 150 - They Also Served

did. He did not stand at the end of the runway, seeing us off like a normal CO. He gave us tremendous confidence’.
However, Wheeler’s luck could not hold, and on the night of 22nd/23rd March 1944, over Frankfurt, his aircraft was hit by flak. He managed to keep the aircraft level so that three of his crew could bale out, but he was killed in the subsequent crash. It was his 158th combat mission.
144