1st Lt Francis Gillespie flew with the 508th Squadron of the 404th Fighter Group based at Winkton - part of the same Fighter Group that Raymond Elledge flew with. There is an excellent website devoted to this Group at http://www.winkton.net ; the website has been pulled together by John Levesley who was kind enough to provide the photos of Gillespie & Elledge on this site.

In "Leap Off", the history of 404th, Gillespie's grounding is described as follows...

Four dive-bombing missions the 18th in addition to the two experimental flights cost the Group two pilots, neither of whom were heard from till they were released from German prison camps nine months later. On the fourth mission, hunting for an observation post six miles east of Periers which the formation was unable to find in dense haze, Frank Gillespie's ship was hit. Flames started up just behind the cockpit, and west of Periers at about 500 feet altitude, Frank finally got out. Chuck Viccellio saw his chute open. November 15, higher headquarters notified the Group that he was a prisoner of war.

The second pilot referred to being Ray Elledge

I was lucky enough to be able to speak to Francis Gillespie before he passed away & I found it absolutely enthralling & a privelidge to be able to be able to talk to him. To begin with, he thought that whilst there was a coincidence and similarity between his experience over France, being shot down and captured along with Major Ray Elledge, he thought that I had got him confused with someone else. That was until he mentioned that they had been held with 2 paratroopers & an RAF pilot... and I provided him with the names! He then realised that we were both talking about the same person...him! I then spent the rest of the phone call (over 1/2 hour) being enthralled.