World War II Honoree
Killed in World War II
Dale V. Grimes
Branch of Service
U.S. Army Air Force
Hometown
Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Honored By
A Grateful American
SECOND LIEUTENANT, B-24 LIBERATOR 'LITTLE EVA', 321ST SQUADRON (BOMBS AWAY), 90TH BOMB GROUP 'JOLLY ROGERS', 5TH AIR FORCE, SERVING IN THE PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS. MEMBER OF NORMAN CROSSON CREW. RETURNING FROM A BOMBING MISSION AGAINST A JAPANESE TROOP CONVOY NORTH OF BUNA ON DECEMBER 2, 1942, THE PILOT BECAME SEPARATED FROM THE OTHER FOUR PLANES. CAUGHT IN A BAD THUNDERSTORM THE PLANE RAN OUT OF GAS AND CRASHED. HE SURVIVED CRASH BUT DROWNED IN ROBINSON RIVER AND WAS SWEPT INTO OCEAN. DIED APPROXIMATELY DECEMBER 25, 1942.