The question may have come from the USS Tuscaloosa War Diary for 25 June 1944, the naval bombardment of Cherbourg. See entry at 1145 here:
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78619977?objectPage=34
More details about a/the spotter plane in trouble here:
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78515139?objectPage=14 . Item (g).
Regards, Leendert