B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-37715 / Sugar Foot

History of
B-17 42-37715 / Sugar Foot

Delivered Long Beach 5/8/43; Grd Island 20/9/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-G] Thorpe Abbotts 25/9/43; Missing in Action Emden 11/12/43 with Jim Haddox, Co-pilot: John Wagner, Navigator: Albt Warfordbody washed up 17/3/44, Bombardier: Ellsworth Power, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Nick Tenaglia, Radio Operator: Casimir Kobis, Ball turret gunner: Gonzalo Orta, Waist gunner: Kendall Morrow,Tail gunner: Lyle Jones (9 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Jim Grosskopf (POW-landed Norderney Is); enemy aircraft damaged ship, & KO’d oxygen, crashed North Sea of Norderney Is.; Missing Air Crew Report 1570. SUGARFOOT.

Last updated: 3. June 2017