We were supposed to fly today but just as we were taxiing out for a takeoff, the nose-wheel collapsed. Navigator (George Martin Haber) banged his head but is OK. No one else was hurt. All were slightly shaken. The ship is a total loss and I doubt if it will ever fly again because the fuselage is all sprung. The name of the ship is “SCREW BALL”. We were all very lucky because we were supposed to go on a practice bombing mission and we had four one thousand pound demolition bombs in the bomb bay. If these bombs went off I wouldn’t be writing in this book.