Chester Parlin Grimm
Military ROLL OF HONOURJoined RCAF, service pilot training, instructor at 11 SFTS, shipped overseas to ETO, operational training at OTU, assigned to 121S, transferred to 335FS 4FG 8AF USAAF.
Squadron bounced by German fighters over the Channel while escorting RAF Bostons. Grimm shot down in Spitfire VB EN853 AV:D during the engagement. ASR forces were unable to locate him. 22 January 1943. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: Spitfire
- Unit: 4th Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron No 121 'Eagle' Squadron
Missions
- Date: 22 January 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Glasford, IL, USA | 13 January 1914 | Born - 13 January 1914 Glasford, Illinois, USA. |
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Other Best Man |
Yorkton, SK, Canada | 5 November 1941 | Sgt Pilot James Maurice Fitzgibbons and Mary Elaine Ostrander were married in Yorkton. Sgt Pilot Chester Grimm was best man. |
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Other Transferred |
Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11, UK | 15 September 1942 - 22 January 1943 | Transferred to 335th FS 4th FG 8th AF USAAF. |
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Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Dunkirk, France | 22 January 1943 | Squadron bounced by German fighters over the Channel while escorting RAF Bostons. Grimm shot down in Spitfire VB EN853 AV:D during the engagement. ASR forces were unable to locate him. 22 January 1943. Killed in Action (KIA). |
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Other Commemorated |
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Madingley Road, Coton, Cambridgeshire CB23 7PH, UK | Commemorated on the Wall of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery | |
| Farmington, IL 61531, USA | |||
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Other Joined RCAF |
Joined Royal Canadian Air Force. | ||
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Other Service pilot training |
Yorkton, SK, Canada | Service pilot training, retained as an Instructor at 11 Service Flying Training School. | |
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Other Shipped overseas |
Merseyside, UK | Shipped overseas to ETO. | |
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Other Operational training |
Great Britain, United Kingdom | Operational training at OTU. Conversion to Hurricane and Spitfires. | |
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Other Assigned |
Kirton in Lindsey, Gainsborough, North Lincolnshire DN21, UK | 15 September 1942 | Assigned to 121 [Eagle] Sqn RAF. |
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 20-Dec-2014. Added Decoration and Commemoration event per American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) record. KIA event per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bichop & John A. Hey MBE.
ABMC, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol 1 by Bishop and Hey p. 65 with picture of the plane / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list