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P47 Pilots Biographies, Last Name Starting With "G"
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Pilot Name
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Biography Summary
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Walter G. Graf
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On March 20, 1945, "Coalbox"
Red Flight of four Thunderbolts looking for
targets of opportunity crossed Speyerdorf,
the main Luftwaffe Field in the German
Palatinate at tree-top level. All four Jugs
caught heavy flak and Graf bailed out at
minimum altitude when his caught fire and
exploded. After hiding in the mountains for
the rest of the day he walked in a westerly
direction at night hoping to make it to
France. On the second night he was captured
by Wehrmacht artillerymen and taken to
German headquarters.
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Jack La Grange, Jr.
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He received his
wings and was assigned to the 78th Fighter
Group, Eighth Air Force, European Theater
of Operations, being promoted to 1st Lieutenant in June 1944. He flew 52 combat
missions (P-47) in the European Theater and
shot down six enemy aircraft.
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Richard E. Grant
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Starting to fly in 1940, he has racked up in
excess of 18,000 hours of military and civilian flying time....................
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Henry Theodore Northcott Graves
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Mr. Graves enlisted in the Army Air Corps
as an aviation cadet candidate in January,
1942. He received basic military training at
Miami Beach, Florida; aviation cadet classification at Nashville, Tennessee; received additional military/college training at Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Attended Aviation Cadet School at Maxwell
Field, Montgomery, Alabama; took primary
flight training at Clarksdale, Mississippi;
basic flight training at Greenville, Mississippi
in advance training and received his wings at
Jackson, Mississippi. He had transition to
P-40 Fighters at Dothan, Alabama. The transition from P-40's to P-47's was at Eglin
Field, Florida.
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Fred C. Gray
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Memories? D-Day; led 78th "A" Gp. on
1st and last of 7 missions back of Normandy.
Got my one and only FW-190 on last. (8 hrs.
25 min. total). Dec. 1948, bailed out at night
from an F-51 near Des Moines, under 200ft., swung once and hit hard!
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George R. Gray
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His first assignment
was the 83rd Group, Dover AFB, Del. where
the P-47 Thunderbolt became an integral
part of everyday, first as a student, then as
instructor. He accumulated 450 Jug hours
before being assigned to ETO joining the
366FG Hun Hunters and the 389th FS
(Varga Boys) at Y-29 in Belgium, eight miles
from the front.
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James Samuel Green
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One day in September 1944 Sam and the
404th found themselves in a dog fight with
eighteen German FW-190's. Belly tanks
were released, Sam and his wing man
Lt. W.R. Myles pursued a plane performing climb,
turn, and dive maneuvers and were easily
able to shoot it down. They went after two
more Germans but they proved too far away
even for the big fifty caliber machine guns
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Leo Greenfield
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After training in P-40's and P-47's, he was
assigned in 1944 to the 493rd, "Fix.up"
squadron of the 48th Fighter Group, 9th Air
Force. He flew thirty-eight (38) missions
through V.E. Day and was primarily engaged
in destroying supply routes, ammunition
dumps, close support of tanks and artillery as
well as escort missions for medium range
bombers and protective coverage on the.
"Ramagan Bridge"; and penetration and disbursement of counter-attacking forces at the
"Bridge." On his tenth mission, his aircraft
was shot up by 20 mm ground fire during a
dive bombing attack on selected ground targets near Cologne, Germany.
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William Dumont Greenfield
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His first Air Corps assignment was at Langley Field, Va., where he served with the 8th
Pursuit Group. In early 1941, General
Greenfield was sent to England with twelve
pilots chosen from various squadrons
throughout the country on a special mission
to obtain firsthand knowledge of fighter tactics in the British Royal Air Force. He flew
Spitfires with some of the "hottest" RAF
squadrons in the British Isles.
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Captain Harry Shields Greeno
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American Army Air Corp Captain Harry Shields Greeno pilot killed August 6 1944 Carentan field France
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