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Norman C. Grant
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-700001
Unit:
860th Bomber Squadron, 493rd Bomber Group
Date of Death:
2002-07-11
State:
Minnesota
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Norman C. Grant was born in 1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1944. He served as the navigator for the 860th Bomber Squadron, 493rd Bomber Group during World War II. On August 18, 1944, 2LT Grant and his crew were shot down during a raid of a German airfield in Roye-Amy. Their B-24 bomber, called "Bolicat," crashed in a field in Boussicourt, France. Grant was the lone survivor of the crash; he was captured by the Germans as a prisoner of war and sent to Stalag Luft III, a German prison camp. After the war, Norman lived to be 81 and die on July 11, 2002.