There is some irony in this account of the “Blue Streak” , a B-17 from the 486th BG-receiving what is probably a direct hit from an 88mm anti-aircraft artillery piece,

This B-17 was piloted by 2 LT David Paris, from New Albany, Indiana. David Paris was an Eagle Scout, and the family
received only a parachute with kitbag as personal effects following his death. There is a marker in the New Albany cemetery, placed by his brother CPT John Paris, a flight surgeon in a Tunisia AirCobra Group during WW II. The further irony continues as John Paris was my father-in-law before his passing in 2002.

My father was a bombardier in the B-24 “Modest Maiden”, with the 491st BG-North Pickenham. In his Bombardier’s Case or kitbag, amazingly enough-was a newspaper clipping of the “Blue Streak” direct hit-from a local English newspaper in November, 1944. There is no explanation other than coincidence as to this account being in the kitbag of my father.
But it is supreme irony. He survived 30 bombing missions over occupied France and Nazi Germany.