Parker Foss
Military
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Object Number - UPL 23861 - Photo of my father, Parker Foss, taken outside his B17 sometime during his time at Rattlesden (1943-45).
Parker Foss (my father) dropped out of Harvard in 1941 to join the Army Air Corps. He ended up being stationed at Rattlesden (UK) airbase and flew many missions over Germany as a navigator on a B17. He survived the war, returned to the US, married my mother and had two sons (both still living). He died in 2004, age 82.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 603rd Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Revisions
Not sure what this means, but my name is David Foss. Parker Foss was my father. my email address is [email protected].
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit History Roster as of 01 August 1945
