John Grodeon

Military
media-6599.jpeg UPL 6599 Crew #559
Stuart H. Scales Crew
466th BG - 785th BS

B-24J-1-FO #42-95617 "Jennie" Code: T9-I
This a/c was a H2X equipped lead ship in the 784th BS. She sat on Revetment #2 which must have been an easy place to take crews to have their picture taken. There are several crews that had their photo taken with "Jennie", some, like the Scales Crew, weren't in the 784th BS.

Standing Left to Right: Ira Young (TG), Jack Shifflet (WG), James Rocco (WG), Thomas Sparks (R/O), Edward V. Centola (NG), John Grodeon (FE)

Kneeling Left to Right: Dorsey A. Odle (N), Melvin Engle (CP), Stuart H. Scales (P)

This crew completed a 35 mission tour: 8 September 1944 - 8 March 1945
466th Bomb Group collection

466th BG Historian

Object Number - UPL 6599 - Crew #559 Stuart H. Scales Crew 466th BG - 785th BS B-24J-1-FO #42-95617 "Jennie" Code: T9-I This a/c was a H2X equipped lead ship in the...

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  • Date: 8 September 1944

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Born

Musselshell, MT 59059, USA 6 September 1924

Enlisted

Butte, MT, USA 5 March 1943

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466th BG Combat Tour

Attlebridge, Norwich, UK 8 September 1944 - 8 March 1945 Completed a 35 mission combat tour

Died

Campbell, CA 96116, USA 11 July 2007
Cascade County, MT, USA
Buhl, ID 83316, USA

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research by genealogist Marcia Melnyk

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Attlebridge Arsenal - Brassfield & Wassom
page 225
Attlebridge Diaries - Woolnough
pages 206 & 207

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466th BG Historian

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit roster in the book ATTLEBRIDGE ARSENAL by Wassom & Brassfield, p345

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