[VOA]

“...nine U.S. servicemen, missing in action from World War II,...”

I don’t know the number of a full crew for a B-24; maybe the whole
crew “rode it in”, hoping to make a crash landing that didn’t work out?

(I’m not an aviator...just naively speculating on how this number of
crew members went down with the ship.)

[Dubya]

I don’t know either. It may be the whole crew.

[ghostrider]

If the bomb laden aircraft took a direct hit and exploded, then it may well have spun, spiraled, flopped and flipped at a great velocity making it difficult to move to an exit. They had no ejection seats in those days.

[wrench]

"I don’t know the number of a full crew for a B-24; maybe the whole crew “rode it in”, hoping to make a crash landing that didn’t work out?"

Looking at a photo of my Dad's aircrew on his B24, there are 10 men in the photo. Not sure if all 10 went on every mission.