449th Airman Completes Long Journey Home

After an 80-year recovery effort a 449th Airman, U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Given C. Grooms, was returned home and laid to rest Oct. 10, 2026, in Waverly, Ohio. Grooms, of Spargursville, Ohio, served as a radio operator with the 718th Bombardment Squadron, 449th Bombardment Group, during World War II. While returning from a mission to Udine, Italy his B-24 Liberator was shot down Jan. 30, 1944. Initial recovery efforts began in 1946, temporarily ending in a non-recoverable declaration in 1949.

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