The third crash survivor James Cyril Mooney volunteered for this mission (his first) when regular Worry Bird crew member Sgt. W. Bollinger reported off sick that day. Mooney was rescued by the French resistance on the morning of the Worry Bird Crash landing 28 April 1944. His life was saved but he was wounded so badly with a broken back that they had no choice to turn him over to the Germans for medical treatment or he would have likely died.
He survived his injuries but was hospitalized for months in a POW hospital in Lyon, France and was then marched on foot back to Germany and eventually to Poland before the British liberated his POW camp in 1945.
On 4 May 1945 RAF Bomber Command implemented Operation Exodus, and the first prisoners of war were repatriated by air. Bomber Command flew 2,900 sorties over the next 23 days, carrying 72,500 prisoners of war.
By 20 May 1945, all surviving American POWs were back in US hands.

I have been unable to obtain a photograph of Mooney but was able to locate his obituary.
Born 20 April 1921 in Englewood, New Jersey he was the youngest of three children born to Mary and William Mooney. He was a graduate of Horace Mann High School then volunteered to serve in the US Army Air Corps on 25 June 1942.
Mooney was awarded the Purple Heart, and a Bronze Star. After the war, he attended Citadel University and went on to become a successful regional sales executive for Johnson & Johnson. He and his wife of 58 years, Jeanne T. Mooney, raised a daughter Deborah A. Frey. He was a winner of the Greenwich Town Golf Tournament in the Super Senior Bracket.
James Mooney died on Saturday 29 December 2007 in Connecticut at the age of 86.
