Charles James Grannis

Military
media-43539.jpeg UPL 43539 S/Sgt Charles J Grannis 832nd BS, 486th BG, 8th AF.

Object Number - UPL 43539 - S/Sgt Charles J Grannis 832nd BS, 486th BG, 8th AF.

Assigned to 832BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Brandenburg in B-17 43-37820; shot down 10-Apr-45 Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 13910





Awards: DFC, AM (4OLC), PH, WWII Victory, EAME.

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Units served with

A diagrammatic layout of AAF Station 174 - the USAAF codename for Sudbury airfield - while the 486th Bomb Group were stationed at the airbase as of the 22 June 1944.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-025823
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 486th Bomb Group 832nd Bomb Squadron

Places

  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
  • Site type: Prisoner of war camp
  • Known as: Stalag Luft 4, Gross Tychow, Pomerania
Aerial photograph of Sudbury airfield looking south west, the bomb dump is to the upper right of the airfield, 29 February 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC188. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Acton

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Gary, IN 18 November 1911

Enlisted

Pittsburgh, PA 1 July 1942 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Other

Prisoner of War (POW)

Tychowo, Poland 10 April 1945 Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft IV.

Other

Baled out POW

Brandenburg, Germany 10 April 1945 Failed to Return (FTR) Brandenburg in B-17 43-37820; shot down 10-Apr-45 POW MACR 13910

Died

28 May 1961

Buried

Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, Hampton City, VA 30 May 1961 Hampton National Cemetery Hampton, Hampton City, Virginia

Based

Sudbury 10 April 1945 Assigned to 832BS, 486BG, 8AF USAAF.
Turtle Creek, PA

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 13910 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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