100th SFS hosts son of WWII waist gunner on 100th BG B-17 to visit father’s heritage jet, ‘Miss Irish’

U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Myron “Ty” Ettus, was a waist gunner on the “Miss Irish” B-17 Flying Fortress during World War II, assigned to the 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, assigned to Thorpe Abbotts, Diss, England, in 1944. Ettus’s son Doug, a retired U.S. Navy captain, visited Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, Sept. 15, 2023, to see the KC-135 Stratotanker with the Miss Irish heritage nose art and meet with the 100th Security Forces Squadron who have “adopted” the aircraft. (Photo courtesy of the 100th Bomb Group Foundation archives)

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