Grady served as a Staff Sergeant, 51st Base Headquarters, Air Base Squadron, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
He resided in St. Johns County, Florida prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps as a Private on September 19, 1940, prior to the war, in Jacksonville, Florida. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being Single, without dependents.
Grady was a passenger on the H.M.T. Rohna.
The Rohna and four other troop ships left Oran in French Algeria with cargo and troops. Off Béjaïa, Algeria the convoy was attacked by an estimated 60 German Luftwaffe Heinkel 177's. One of the 177's, piloted by Hans Dochtermann, released a glide bomb that hit Rohna on her port side and she eventually sank.
1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 U.S. personnel. The attack is the largest loss of US troops at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. 35 U.S. troops of the 2,000 originally embarked later died of wounds.
Grady "Died Of Wounds" on one of the rescue ships during the war.
He was awarded the Purple Heart.
Service # 14014203
( Bio & Family Link by: Russ Pickett )
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SSgt with the 51st Air Base Squadron. Reinterred from Tunis Cemetery to the St. Augustine National Cemetery on 3/21/1949.
He resided in St. Johns County, Florida prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps as a Private on September 19, 1940, prior to the war, in Jacksonville, Florida. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being Single, without dependents.
Grady was a passenger on the H.M.T. Rohna.
The Rohna and four other troop ships left Oran in French Algeria with cargo and troops. Off Béjaïa, Algeria the convoy was attacked by an estimated 60 German Luftwaffe Heinkel 177's. One of the 177's, piloted by Hans Dochtermann, released a glide bomb that hit Rohna on her port side and she eventually sank.
1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 U.S. personnel. The attack is the largest loss of US troops at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. 35 U.S. troops of the 2,000 originally embarked later died of wounds.
Grady "Died Of Wounds" on one of the rescue ships during the war.
He was awarded the Purple Heart.
Service # 14014203
( Bio & Family Link by: Russ Pickett )
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Previously added to Find A Grave,
source unknown:
SSgt with the 51st Air Base Squadron. Reinterred from Tunis Cemetery to the St. Augustine National Cemetery on 3/21/1949.
Grady served as a Staff Sergeant, 51st Base Headquarters, Air Base Squadron, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.
He resided in St. Johns County, Florida prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps as a Private on September 19, 1940, prior to the war, in Jacksonville, Florida. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being Single, without dependents.
Grady was a passenger on the H.M.T. Rohna.
The Rohna and four other troop ships left Oran in French Algeria with cargo and troops. Off Béjaïa, Algeria the convoy was attacked by an estimated 60 German Luftwaffe Heinkel 177's. One of the 177's, piloted by Hans Dochtermann, released a glide bomb that hit Rohna on her port side and she eventually sank.
1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 U.S. personnel. The attack is the largest loss of US troops at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. 35 U.S. troops of the 2,000 originally embarked later died of wounds.
Grady "Died Of Wounds" on one of the rescue ships during the war.
He was awarded the Purple Heart.
Service # 14014203
( Bio & Family Link by: Russ Pickett )
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Previously added to Find A Grave,
source unknown:
SSgt with the 51st Air Base Squadron. Reinterred from Tunis Cemetery to the St. Augustine National Cemetery on 3/21/1949.
He resided in St. Johns County, Florida prior to the war.
He enlisted in the Army Air Corps as a Private on September 19, 1940, prior to the war, in Jacksonville, Florida. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being Single, without dependents.
Grady was a passenger on the H.M.T. Rohna.
The Rohna and four other troop ships left Oran in French Algeria with cargo and troops. Off Béjaïa, Algeria the convoy was attacked by an estimated 60 German Luftwaffe Heinkel 177's. One of the 177's, piloted by Hans Dochtermann, released a glide bomb that hit Rohna on her port side and she eventually sank.
1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 U.S. personnel. The attack is the largest loss of US troops at sea due to enemy action in a single incident. 35 U.S. troops of the 2,000 originally embarked later died of wounds.
Grady "Died Of Wounds" on one of the rescue ships during the war.
He was awarded the Purple Heart.
Service # 14014203
( Bio & Family Link by: Russ Pickett )
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Previously added to Find A Grave,
source unknown:
SSgt with the 51st Air Base Squadron. Reinterred from Tunis Cemetery to the St. Augustine National Cemetery on 3/21/1949.
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