Airmen from other warplanes in the formation reported seeing "Heaven Can Wait" pitching up violently before banking left and plummeting into the ocean.

On March 11, 1944, Tennyson was the pilot onboard a B-24D Liberator bomber called "Heaven Can Wait" during a bombing mission in Hansa Bay, located along the northern coast of New Guinea.

A 24-year-old U.S. Army pilot killed during World War II will come back home to Wichita. On Tuesday, Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson, of Wichita, was accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said.

On March 11, 1944, Tennyson was the pilot onboard a B-24D Liberator bomber called "Heaven Can Wait" during a bombing mission in Hansa Bay, located along the northern coast of New Guinea.