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

Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Doug Ettus, center, and wife Patti, join leadership and Airmen assigned to the 100th Security Forces Squadron in front of a KC-135 Stratotanker bearing the heritage “Miss Irish” nose art at Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, Sept. 15, 2023. Ettus’s father, U.S. Army Air Force Staff Sgt. Myron “Ty” Ettus, was a waist gunner on the original Miss Irish – a B-17 Flying Fortress – during World War II. Ty flew out of Thorpe Abbotts, Diss, England, and Doug and his wife travelled to the U.K. to visit Thorpe Abbotts and the 100th Air Refueling Wing to learn more about his father’s time stationed in England. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

PHOTO BY: Karen Abeyasekere

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