"For a reason that is inexplicable to me to this day, we always heard the planes first through the chimney in the kitchen" Ludwig Kohler. The B-17 F-85-BO, serial number: 42-30126, markings: IV, Nik name: Sugar Foot, 12th Air Force, 99th Bomb Group, 416th Squadron. The B-17 took off from Oudna (TU) with the mission to bomb the Messerschmitt factories in Augsburg (D) in Bad Ragaz.
Crew :
Pilot: 1st Lt. Burton C. English, KIA
Copilot: 2nd Lt. Donald M. Rentice, KIA
Navigator: 2nd Lt, Levi S. Finiseth, KIA
Bombardier: 2nd Lt, Irving B. Patten, KIA
Engineer: T/Sgt, Peter B. Malchiodi, KIA
Radio: T/Sgt Joseph R. Carrol
Asst. Radio: S/Sgt Charles R. Burgett, KIA
Asst. Engineer: S/Sgt Marion Dr Pratt
waist gunner: S/Sgt Norris W. King
Tail gunner: Sgt Elmer D. Wheadon, KIA
Remembrance by Ludwig Kohler, Contribution Gianluca Volpe
