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Military
S/Sgt John T Grasse
John T Grasse in a formal Portrait
Sgt John T Grasse next to his work station
John Grasse`s Lucky Bastard Certificate
S/Sgt John T Grasse :- DFC award card. 94BG.
S/Sgt John T Grasse :- Air medal award card. 94BG.
S/Sgt John T Grasse next to his 'office'.
S/Sgt John T Grasse 'Lucky Bastard Club' certificate.
Assigned to 333BS, 94BG, 8AF USAAF. Harold McKee crew. 30 x combat missions. 24-Dec-43, when returning from operations in B-17 42-30612, in landing A/C ran of the end of the runway and nosed up. 10 RTD.
Awards: DFC, AM (4OLC), GC, WWII Victory, EAME (2 x Battle Stars)
His 30 mission list can be found here at a website administered by his son in law Alan Leiby http://lazlographics.com/Sorties.html?fbclid=IwAR1ZiHncFkqcbcnNFoISpuE9D...
Group
Activated 15 June 1942 at MacDill Field, Florida. Initial organization and training at Pendleton Field, Oregon on 29 June 1942. Primary flight training at Davis-Monthan Field in Arizona from 28 Aug. 42 to 31 Oct. 42; then at Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas...
Squadron
Part of 94th Bomb Group.
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 29/6/43; Gore 30/9/43; Dow Fd 18/7/43; Assigned 333BS/94BG [TS-D] Rougham 29/7/43; returning from mission (where?) on 24/12/43 landed too far down the runway onto soft soil and nosed up, with Harry McKee, Co-pilot: Earl Resorick,...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 29/10/43; Kearney 15/11/43; Assigned 331BS/94BG [QE-D] Rougham 1/1/44; Missing in Action Berlin 18/4/44 with Alden Gordon, Co-pilot: Bill McSpadden, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Pete Athanis, Radio Operator: Carl Barger, Ball...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 2/11/43; Portland 4/11/43; Cheyenne 13/11/43; Kearney 16/11/43; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-A] Rougham 20/12/43; 333BS [TS-B]; Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 26/6/45; Patterson 27/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45;...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 6/9/43; Gr Island 15/10/43; Assigned 333BS/94BG [TS-P] Rougham 26/10/43; Missing in Action Laon 9/5/44 with Tom Bond, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vernon Bishop, Radio Operator: Claude Brown (3 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot:...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 4 September 1943; Gr Island 22 September 1943; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-B] Rougham 27 September 1943. Missing in Action Berlin 4 March 1944 with Pilot Julius O. Blake; Co-Pilot George G. Wedd Jr; Bombardier William P. Calmes;...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 17/9/43; Assigned 410BS/94BG [GL-L] Rougham 13/10/43; sal 21/4/44.
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 1/10/43; Gr Island 30/10/43; Assigned 331BS/94BG [QE-L] Rougham 11/11/43; then 410BS [GL-H]; Missing in Action Bohlan 7/10/44 with George Williams, Bob Dean, Andy Weickel, Ray Snodgrass, Hubert McKay, Melvin Gilmer, Lou Pozgay, Bob...
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 30/1/44; Kearney 27/2/44; Grenier 5/3/44; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-C] Rougham 12/3/44.
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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 3/2/44; Gr Island 16/2/44; Presque Is 12/3/44; Assigned 410BS/94BG [GL-R] Rougham 12/3/44 MY IDEAL; 333BS [TS-D]; battle damaged Berlin 26/2/45; force landed Luxembourg; Salvaged 20/3/45.
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Denver 27/11/43; Kearney 15/12/43; Presque Is 22/12/43; Assigned 333BS/94BG [TS-K] Rougham 24/12/43; Missing in Action Brunswick 23/3/44 with Addison Reno, Co-pilot: Pat Brann, Navigator: Howard Humphrey, Bombardier: Nelson Buel, Flight...
Military site : airfield
The airfield was purpose-built for American bomb groups and as such had a 2,000 yard main runway that lain in concrete with a tarred and wood-chipped surface. The scale of bases such as this meant that very often the technical, administrative and...
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| Born | Lorain, OH | 9 September 1920 |
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Son of John Grasse. |
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| Enlisted | Cleveland, OH | 28 July 1942 |
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Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Based | Bury St Edmunds | November 1943 – May 1944 |
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Assigned to 333BS, 94BG, 8AF USAAF. |
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| Died | Lorain, OH | 20 February 2016 |
| Buried | Ridge Hill Memorial Park Amherst, Lorain County, OH | 23 February 2016 |
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Ridge Hill Memorial Park |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 21 January 2022 11:00:45 | Al_Skiff | Changes to middlename, service number, role, biography, awards, events, unit associations and place associations |
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https://www.fold3.com/image/681142537 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 28 February 2021 21:25:47 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C type in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 25 December 2020 20:28:15 | RayWells | Changes to awards and aircraft associations |
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corrected bio and added connections |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 25 December 2020 20:16:55 | RayWells | Changes to biography |
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corrected bio |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 25 December 2020 20:09:54 | RayWells | Changes to biography |
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Update Bio with info from http://lazlographics.com/Sorties.html?fbclid=IwAR1ZiHncFkqcbcnNFoISpuE9D... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 25 December 2020 14:25:02 | RayWells | Changes to surname |
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Corrected surname spelling |
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| 27 September 2014 18:16:41 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the Eighth and Ninth Air Forces Vol. I, p. 439 |
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