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Grimm Clarence William “Bud”

Name:
Clarence William “Bud” Grimm
Rank:
Staff Sergeant
Serial Number:
36802488
Unit:
856th Bomber Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group
Date of Death:
1944-06-04
State:
Wisconsin
Cemetery:
Cambridge American Cemetery, United Kingdom
Plot:
E
Row:
5
Grave:
63
Decoration:
Air Medal, Purple Heart
Comments:

Clarence William “Bud” Grimm, Jr. was born in 1924. He was the son of Clarence William and Loretta M Moore Grimm. Clarence William, Jr. attended the Blessed Sacrament Grade School and graduated from West High School Madison.

He enlisted in the Army Air Force on 9th February 1942, training as an air mechanic at Kessler Field Mississippi. Then he graduated from the air gunnery school Harlingen Texas and completed combat training with his crew at Davis- Monthan airfield in Tucson, Arizona before joining the 492nd Bomb Group at Alamogordo New Mexico where they were allocated to 856th Bombardment Squadron as crew 607. They flew in their allocated aircraft B24J (44-40146) 'Sugar-N-Spice' across the Atlantic via the southern route arriving at North Pickenham in April 1944. He spent his first weeks on familiarization flights with the 856th Squadron. Clarence Grimm's first operational mission as Flight Engineer was on 11th May 44 in 'Sugar-N-Spice'. There were two further missions in this aircraft, the six following missions were in a variety of other 'ships'. The final and fatal mission on 4th June 1944 was in B24H (42-95160). This un-named 'replacement' aircraft was on its fourth mission having arrived in the squadron five days earlier.

An engineer on the airplane, B-24H #42-95160 took off from England on a bombing mission over Avord, France. For an unknown reason, the plane stalled and spun out of control, and crashed at Garvestone, Norfolk, England.

TSgt Grimm is now buried in the Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.garveston12.org.uk