Chester Wooten Granville
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Object Number - UPL 52365 - 1st Lt Chester W Granville, 479FG
Assigned to 435FS, 479FG, 8AF USAAF. Killed on a training flight as pilot of P-51D 44-14437. Became separated from his flight in overcast conditions over Northern Ireland. Crashed near Carlingford, Ireland, presumed in the Irish Sea. Killed in Service (KIS) MACR 9248
I was stationed at Bergstrom Air Force Base. Met Lt. Granville's Mother in 1968 with my visiting in-laws who afterwards went back to Cambridge AMC and took photograph of Lt. Granville's name on "Wall of the Missing", sent it to us and we presented it to his Mother who lived in Bastrop near Austin, Texas
Awards: AM (3OLC), PH.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 479th Fighter Group 435th Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Texas | 2 October 1918 | Son of Maurice F. and Dorothea H. [Von Rosenberg] Granville. |
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Other Killed in Service |
Irish Sea | 14 September 1944 | Killed on a training flight in overcast conditions over Northern Ireland. Crashed into Irish Sea. |
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Buried |
Tablets of the Missing Cambridge American Cemetery Coton, Cambs, UK | ||
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Based |
Wattisham | 14 September 1944 | Assigned to 435FS, 479FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Combat Chronology / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
