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Hunt, Grady Glenn

Date of birth:
March 7th, 1917 (Orange/North Carolina, United States)
Date of death:
December 22nd, 1943 (IJsselmeer, Netherlands)
Service number:
0-675432
Nationality:
American

Biography

Pilot, 1st lieutenant
USAAF 93 Bomb Group 409 Bomb Sqdn

Grady Glenn Hunt was the son of Grady Thomas Hunt and Sallie Elizabeth Williams of Denton, NC. Pilot of B-24 42-63969. Shot down over the IJsselmeer (Netherlands) on his way back from a mission to Osnabruck. His body washed up near Makkum six months after the crash and he was buried there on 23 June 1944. After positive identification, he was reburied in Denton, Davidson County, North Carolina, in 1949.

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