Served with the 100th Bomb Group and lost his life when his plane, B-17 42-5860 / Poontang aka Escape Kit" enemy aircraft hit nose which caught fire, crashed at Schweinberg, 18 miles SW of Wurtzburg, Germany...∼Richard, son of Richard Hartwell King and Ethel Pickett, enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941. He was the pilot of the B-17 bomber, "Sunny" when it was shot down and crashed near Clichy, France.
Served with the 100th Bomb Group and lost his life when his plane, B-17 42-5860 / Poontang aka Escape Kit" enemy aircraft hit nose which caught fire, crashed at Schweinberg, 18 miles SW of Wurtzburg, Germany...∼Richard, son of Richard Hartwell King and Ethel Pickett, enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1941. He was the pilot of the B-17 bomber, "Sunny" when it was shot down and crashed near Clichy, France.
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