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 Warford body 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 off Norderney Is.; Missing Air Crew Report 1570. SUGARFOOT.
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Units served with
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- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 100th Bomb Group 351st Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19186617
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Other Failed to Return (FTR) Over Water (OW) |
11 December 1943 |
Revisions
Added a space before the words “Tail gunner” in the A/C “Description” section.
Source is the original Tail Gunner, SSG Robert D. Abney - telephonically interviewed on 21SEP2016.
Telephonic interview, on 21SEP2016, with the original Tail Gunner, SSG Robert D. Abney, who was hospitalized with frostbite on the day of the mission his plane was lost. He had trained in the Untied States with and knew the entire crew with the exception of SSG Lyle Jones who was a substitute Tail Gunner on the last mission of "Sugarfoot".
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 1570 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database