WWII · Battle Death Record
Foy Draper
Captain, U.S. Army Air Forces · Texas
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Foy Draper
- Entered the Service From
- Texas
- Rank
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army Air Forces
- Unit / Regiment
- A-20 Havoc attack bomber pilot (USAAF), based at Thelepte, Tunisia
- War
- WWII
- Date of Death
- January 4, 1943
- Burial / Memorial
- North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial, Carthage, Tunisia
- Grave
- Plot F, Row 10, Grave 7
Their story
Foy Draper was a sprinter who won a gold medal in the 4x100m relay (with Jesse Owens) at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, then served as a U.S. Army Air Forces pilot flying an A-20B Havoc attack bomber from Thelepte, Tunisia. On January 4, 1943, he and his crew took off on a mission to strike German and Italian ground forces in Tunisia during the fighting around Kasserine Pass; his aircraft was shot down and Draper and two crewmen were killed.
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