World War II Honoree

Grant B. Moore

Branch of Service

U.S. Army Air Force

Hometown

Payson, Utah

Honored By

Virginia Moore

Relationship

Wife

HE WAS INDUCTED INTO THE ARMY AIR FORCES JANUARY 10, 1943, AT FORT DOUGLAS, UTAH. HE WENT TO BASIC TRAINING IN ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY. AFTER BASIC TRAINING, HE WAS SENT TO BUCKLEY AIRFIELD IN COLORADO FOR ARMAMENT SCHOOLING. THEN HE WENT TO NORTH CAROLINA FOR OVERSEAS TRAINING. HE WAS SENT OVERSEAS IN AUGUST, 1943. HE WAS IN NORTH AFRICA FOR A SHORT PERIOD THEN SENT TO ITALY. HE WAS WITH THE FIRST 9 SHIPS GOING INTO NAPLES HARBOR AFTER IT WAS LIBERATED FROM THE GERMANS. IN JANUARY, 1944, HE WAS ASSIGNED TO THE 301ST B-17 HEAVY BOMB GROUP STATIONED IN LUCERA, ITALY. HIS ASSIGNMENT WAS ARMORER CONSISTING OF LOADING BOMBS AND TAKING CARE OF 50 CALIBER MACHINE GUNS ON A PLANE ASSIGNED TO HIM. AT THE END OF THE WAR IN EUROPE, HIS BOMB GROUP WAS SENT HOME AND GIVEN A 30 DAY FURLOUGH. HIS BOMB GROUP WAS SCHEDULED TO TRAIN ON B-29 AIRCRAFT AND GO INTO THE PACIFIC WAR ZONE, BUT THE JAPANESE SURRENDERED DURING HIS 30 DAY FURLOUGH AT HOME. SO, WITH PLENTY OF POINTS NEEDED FOR DISCHARGE, HE WAS DISCHARGED AT FORT DOUGLAS, UTAH, IN LATE 1945, HAVING ATTAINED THE RANK OF STAFF SERGEANT.