Grover Chester Deen
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Lt. Grover C. Deen joined the 369th Fighter Squadron on 26 May 1944. On 18 September 1944, while flying his 43rd mission with the 359th Fighter Group, his Mustang went down for unknown reasons and the Lieutenant was captured. A POW at Stalag 1 in Barth-Vogelsang, he was liberated on 30 April 1945 and returned home to Austin, TX.
18 September 1944: The airborne assault on Eindhove, Nijmegen and Arnhom continued on the 18th. It was a long (6:07) patrol under MEW control, and there were three scattered combats. A flight was bounced by 35 FW-190s in one of these, and in this fight Grover C. Deen and Edwin Sjoblad were last seen. There were three claims - by Crenshaw, Lt. James Parsons, and another shared by John E. Keur and Thomas Bur.
Assigned to 369FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) area support to Apeldorn in P-51C 42-103799 18-Sep-44 - Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 9008
Awards: DFC, BSM, POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Post war: Remained in USAF serving in the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 359th Fighter Group 369th Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft I, Barth, Germany
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Fiskville, Travis County, TX | 18 May 1919 | Son of Grover C and Ethel Deen. |
Based |
East Wretham | 26 May 1944 - 18 September 1944 | Assigned to 369FS, 359FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Other Promotion |
East Wretham, UK | 5 August 1944 | Promoted to 1st Lieutenant. |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 18 September 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft I. |
Other Baled out POW |
Dieren, Holland | 18 September 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR) area support to Apeldorn in P-51C 42-103799 18-Sep-44 - Prisoner of War. MACR 9008 |
Died |
Jacksonville, AR | 3 August 2002 | |
Buried |
Cook-Walden Memorial Hill Cemetery Austin, Travis County, TX | 10 August 2002 | Cook-Walden Memorial Hill Cemetery Austin, Travis County, TX |
Austin, TX |
Revisions
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 9008
Transferred biography by Janet Fogg, 359th Fighter Group Historian from media record