Gene Carlton Grime

Military
media-44462.jpeg UPL 44462 Halcott B. Thomas Crew
95th BG - 335th BS

Standing Left to Right: Gene C. Grime (R/O), Billy C. Ferguson (FE), Millard E. McGowan, Jr. (TG), Fred W. Miller (WG)

Kneeling Left to Right: Halcott B. Thomas (P), Benjamin F. Hathaway (B), Bily P. Decherniss (BTG), Donald B. Flygstad (N), Max Bunin (CP)

This was largely the crew that Halcott Thomas finished his tour with, though his original crew had a sunstantially different composition. The crew in the photo had been the Jammie Philpott crew
95th Bomb Group collection

Object Number - UPL 44462 - Halcott B. Thomas Crew 95th BG - 335th BS Standing Left to Right: Gene C. Grime (R/O), Billy C. Ferguson (FE), Millard E. McGowan, Jr. (TG),...

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Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Joltin Joe
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron 350th Bomb Squadron

Missions

Ground crew attend to a crashed P-51 Mustang nicknamed "Baby Jo" of the 357th Fighter Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: ' Lt Noel Breen ran out of fuel 9 Feb '45.'
  • Date: 9 February 1945
  • Date: 1 February 1945
  • Date: 10 January 1945
  • Date: 7 January 1945
A B-17 Flying Fortress (EP-E, serial number 42-31767) nicknamed "Our Gal Sal" of the 100th Bomb Group at Mount Farm. Image by Robert Astrella, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group. Written on slide casing: 'Our Gal Sal EP-E, 231767 at Mount Farm.'
  • Date: 31 December 1944

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Clifton Hill, MO 15 August 1922
Vallejo, CA 29 June 1942

Enlisted

San Francisco, CA 4 August 1942

Other

95th BG Combat Tour

Horham Airfield, UK 12 October 1944 - 16 April 1945 25 combat missions 15 - Philpott Crew 9- H. Thomas Crew 1 - J.M. Warren Crew

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