Coleman Foch Sartoris

Military

Assigned to 350BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF.





Awards: GC, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

Three airmen of the 100th Bomb Group, Lieutenant Kenneth Menzie, Lieutenant Donald Strout and Lieutenant Norman Scott, plan the route they will take during the next mission in their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30380). Image stamped on reverse: 'Reviewed and passed U.S. Army 23 Aug 1943 Press Censor E.T.O. U.S.A.' [stamp]'. Passed for publication 23 August 1943 INTLD 16 General Section Press Censorship Bureau '[stamp], 'Associated Press' [stamp] and '280035.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reve

100th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-31903

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hard Luck II
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron
42-3413 in flight

42-3413

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Hard Luck !
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Staunton, IL 29 December 1918 Son of Joseph Coleman and Nellie Irene [Parkinson] Sartoris.

Enlisted

Fort Sheridan, IL 5 November 1941 Fort Sheridan, Illinois

Died

Holts Summit, MO 28 April 1997

Buried

Valley View Cemetery Edwardsville, Madison County, IL 1 May 1997 Valley View Cemetery Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois

Based

Thorpe Abbotts Assigned to 350BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF.

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ContributorAAM
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Sources

100th Bomb Group Foundation Directory, 2000 - 2001 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia