![]() ġ944 Airfield Diagram 1944 Airfield Diagram IATA: SUX, ICAO: KSUX, FAA LID: SUX, WMO: 725570Īirfield shared with Sioux Gateway Airport (Brigadier General Day Field). Kelley, Springville, Iowa.Ĭlaims for damages and loss-of-life initially denied by the USAAF because the training flight was off-course and therefore not on official USAAF business. Barbara Jean West of Washburn, Wis.Ĭorporal JOHN F. ESLINGER, 26, 1642 Fairchild, Manhattan, Kan., co-pilot. Plane hit the ground and cartwheeled through the farm of Ora Hatfield, killing Hatfield and his infant grandson Jay Settles and severely burning Hatfield's wife and daughter Ruth Settles. On a training flight out of Walker AAF, either the pilot or the co-pilot had worked on a farm in Copeland and deviated from their approved flight path to buzz the town. Written off (destroyed) when crashed 17 September 1944 near Copeland, Kansas. Returned to CONUS (the Continental USA) as "War Weary" and reassigned to the 883rd Bomb Squadron, 500th Bomb Group. Assigned to 792nd Bomb Squadron, 468th Bomb Group, USAAF, Kharagpur, India. Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)ī-29-15-BW 42-6379: Delivered to the USAAF 26 February 1944. Ora Hatfield's Farm, 1 mile South of Copeland, Kansas.
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