My father was Staff Sgt. Monte Ogens. He was an aviator with the 301st Bomb Group, 353 Bomb Squadron, 15th Air Force. His last flight of the war, on Jan. 11, 1944, was on B-17 bomber No. 42-30357.
Nearly a month after the F-35A Lightning II with a "TX" tail code (tail number 22-5786), piloted by a Lockheed Martin test ...