File:A Kaplon portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Henry and Bea Sigafoose with their dog. Ford Sigafoose.jpg

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A Kaplon portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Ford and Bea Sigafoose with their dog. Ford Sigafoose flew B-17 bombers for the Allied Forces in WW11. Sadly, he died at the relatively young age of 49 in 1970. the couple are buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Here's the service record of Major Henry Ford Sigafoose from the WWII Flight Training Museum Website:

He graduated from Marianna Army Air Field in FL. as F.O. T-61367. He made the Air Force his career. He served as a B-17 pilot with the 99th Bomb Group 416th Bomb Squadron based at Tortorella Italy. Throughout 1944, the 99th bombed targets in German occupied Italy, Germany, Austria, Greece, Bulgaria, France, Rumania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. After the war he was stationed at a California Air Base where he flew jets. He received the Air Medal.

(From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries)

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