Looking back at the service of the late Gene Grady

This story, written by editor Brett Adkison, originally ran in the June 2, 2011, edition of The Clinton County Leader. Gene Grady passed away on July 30, 2023, at the age of 100.

Gene Grady grips at the aged-brown folder on his kitchen table. Inside are dates, times and clusters of numbers that hide away their true meaning. They represent bombing flights over Munich, Leizpeg and other lands he never thought he would see. Near misses and emergency landings hidden behind fours, fives and sixes.

He begins to review his flight record as a B-17 gunner in World War II, adding commentary as he goes. Some details take a moment to recall. Others pounce from his lips, clear and vivid. His hand-written notes describe each mission: where they had gone, if they encountered resistance and, on the worse days, how many holes had been punched in their flying fortress.

Through it all, the 88-year-old veteran has maintained a spirited demeanor. His hair has turned white and his glasses take up most of his face, but when he smiles, he resembles the boy he was in the early 1940s,

If it weren’t for the sporadic rain showers outside, he’d be toiling away on the farm somewhere. His plaid shirt and overalls, both a little too roomy for his small frame, indicate he is ready to go as soon as he can.

“I still run a tractor 12 hours a day somedays,” he says. “It doesn’t bother me to do that. I get tired, but I’ve got to get out and do something.”

Other mornings he makes the mile trip into Lathrop and sits down at the gas station for coffee and conversation.

With each passing month, the nation is further removed from the world wars that defined the 20th century. The last veterans of the Great War passed this year - collapsing the final link between then and today. It’s more important than ever to chronicle the stories of those who lived the wars first-hand.

*****

Gene can’t remember how young he was, just in the pain he felt in his foot.

He first thought that he had stepped on something. He and his older brother, Jack, were hunting rabbits on a rocky bluff on their farm near Plattsburg. It turns out that Jack had aimed and fired his shotgun, and though it was angled away from Gene, a grain of buckshot ricocheted off a rock and lodged in the boy’s foot.

Still to this day, Gene can feel the tiny round ball just below the skin.

“We never did tell mom,” he said. “Afraid she’d never let us hunt again.”

Grady was born just north of Lathrop in 1922, about a mile from where he lives today. His father, Mike Grady, had little education. Like so many others in that era, he began farming at an early age to help support the family. Gene’s mother’s Oddie was one of eight children and did nearly as much around the farm as her husband.

The family bounced from rented farm to rented farm, working land throughout Clinton County’s midsection.

Gene was a sophomore at Lathrop High School in the fall of 1939. Jack, five years older than Gene and a graduate of Plattsburg

High School, met him in the school yard during lunch one cold fall day. He told Gene he was going into the service. The conversation was free of the emotional clutter one might expect. Even as a young teen, Gene understood both the importance of service and the tense situation brewing overseas.

“Our friends were all going, most of them,” Gene said. “It was our duty to go. I could have been deferred all through the war, but chose not to.”

It was the last time Genewould see his brother, the soon-to-be prisoner of war, until his release in 1945.

The pilot of the B-17 laid in the catwalk, blood springing from his left eye. German antiaircraft fire had shattered the left-side window and blew the shards inward. Thousands of feet in the air, a fierce wind poured through the newly-torn hole while members of the crew administer first aid to the pilot, Lt. Bob Maag.

That same blast imbedded eight pieces of shrapnel in the leg of George Byczlowski, the plane’s engineer. The co-pilot is a young, inexperienced kid named Ivan Walker. He takes control of the B-17. Flak from the antiaircraft fire rocks the plane from every direction.

Welcome to August 9, 1944 - Gene Grady’s 18th mission as a B-17 waist gunner in the 94th bombing group. He had landed in England two months before and was quickly thrown into a pattern of sleep, prep, fly and repeat. He and his crewmates had logged 116 hours of flight-time that July alone.

Just hours before the mission, crews waited on the ground for an “all-go” they were certain would never come. Dense fog filled the air and offered little visibility at take off. Icing and turbulence were expected over Germany, while the return forecast called for rain and more fog.

After two delays, the mission was launched.

Crews made it to the enemy coast and continued on in hopes of reaching Murenberg, but turned back soon after.

It was on their return home that Grady’s B-17 –a patched-up hunk of metal named Skinny – became the focus of antiaircraft fire.

“You couldn’t get above it and you couldn’t get below it,” he said of the flak. “You just pulled that hat down over you head and bunched up. Try to make the littlest target you could.”

While his fellow crew members tended to the injured pilot, Grady stuck with co-pilot Ivan Walker in the cockpit, calling out the airspeed and shooting off flares to call for an emergency response on the ground.

Years later, Lt. Magg let Grady in on a little secretWalker had never landed a plane before that day.

“He said, ‘All through training, I’d have him on it and before we got to the ground he would tell me to take over.’

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IN RE: Jeff L. Reece And Russanne R. Reece, Husband and Wife, Their Heirs and Assigns Trustee’s Sale:

For default in payment of debt and performance of obligation secured by Deed of Trust executed by Jeff L. Reece And Russanne R. Reece, Husband and Wife, Their Heirs and Assigns dated January 31, 2012 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Clinton County, Missouri in Book 2012, Page 329 the undersigned Successor Trustee, at the request of the legal holder of said Note will on Monday, August 28, 2023 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., (at the specific time of 12:50 PM), at the West Front Door of the Court House, City of Plattsburg, County of Clinton, State of Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, described in said Deed of Trust, and situated in Clinton County, State of Missouri, to wit:

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ALL OF LOT TWENTY-FOUR (24), TIMBER CREEK ESTATES PHASE 2, A SUBDIVISION IN CLINTON COUNTY, MISSOURI. AND

A TRACT OF LAND SITUATE IN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION THIRTEEN (13), TOWNSHIP FIFTY-FOUR (54) NORTH, RANGE THIRTY-ONE (31) WEST, CLINTON COUNTY, MISSOURI, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SECTION THIRTEEN (13), TOWNSHIP FIFTY-FOUR (54) NORTH, RANGE THIRTY-ONE (31) WEST, CLINTON COUNTY, MISSOURI; THENCE WITH THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION NORTH 89 DEGREES 15 MINUTES 54 SECONDS EAST, 1321.69 FEET TO THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF TIMBER CREEK ESTATES PHASE 2; THENCE ALONG THE WEST LINE OF TIMBER CREEK ESTATES PHASE 2, SOUTH 01 DEGREES 24 MINUTES 58 SECONDS WEST, 940.70 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF LOT TWENTY-FOUR (24) TIMBER CREEK ESTATES PHASE 2; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG SAID LINE SOUTH 01 DEGREES 24 MINUTES 58 SECONDS WEST, 296.33 FEET; THENCE DEPARTING FROM SAID LINE NORTH 89 DEGREES 51 MINUTES 07 SECONDS WEST, 10.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 01 DEGREES 24 MINUTES 58 SECONDS EAST, 296.33 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 51 MINUTES 07 SECONDS EAST, 10.00 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. to satisfy said debt and costs.

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Children from families whose current income is at or below those shown are eligible for free or reduced price meals. Applications are available at the school office. To apply, fill out a Free and Reduced Price School Meals Family Application and return it to the school. The information provided on the application is confidential and will be used only for the purpose of determining eligibility. Applications may be submitted any time during the school year. A complete application is required as a condition of eligibility. A complete application includes:

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Foster children may be eligible regardless of the income of the household with whom they reside. Households with children who are eligible under the foster, Head Start, homeless, migrant, or runaway programs should contact the school for assistance in receiving meal benefits. Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participants may be eligible for free or reduced price meals.

Children who are members of households currently certified as receiving Food Stamps, TANF or FDPIR are eligible for free meals. To complete an application, the household must provide the names of the children, a statement that the household receives the qualifying benefits, the Food Stamps/TANF/FDPIR case number, and the signature of the adult household member making application. When known by the school that members of a household are receiving assistance from Food Stamps, TANF or FDPIR, households will be notified of their children’s eligibility for free school meals. If any children in the household were not listed on the eligibility notice or not listed on the application, the household should contact the school to have benefits extended to all children in the household.

If a family member becomes unemployed or if family size changes, the family should contact the school to file a new application. Such changes may make the children of the family eligible for these benefits.

Under the provisions of the policy, the Clinton County R-III School District will review the applications and determine eligibility. If a parent is dissatisfied with the ruling of the determining official, they may wish to discuss the decision with the hearing official on an informal basis or he/she may make a request either orally or in writing to the Superintendent, Dr. Sandy Steggall.

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Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ad-3027.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:

1. mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights 1400 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or

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IN RE: Cody Hays, A Single Person Trustee’s Sale: For default in payment of debt and performance of obligation secured by Deed of Trust executed by Cody Hays, A Single Person dated May 26, 2017 and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of Clinton County, Missouri as Instrument Number: 201701515 and modified by a Loan Modification Agreement recorded September 3, 2021 as Instrument Number 202103471 and further modified by a Loan Modification Agreement recorded November 22, 2022 as Instrument Number 202203732 the undersigned Successor Trustee, at the request of the legal holder of said Note will on Monday, August 14, 2023 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., (at the specific time of 12:50 PM), at the West Front Door of the Court House, City of Plattsburg, County of Clinton, State of Missouri, sell at public vendue to the highest bidder for cash the following described real estate, described in said Deed of Trust, and situated in Clinton County, State of Missouri, to wit: LOT FIFTEEN (15) AND THE SOUTH FORTY (40) FEET OF LOT SIXTEEN (16), BLOCK FOURTEEN (14), IN THE TOWN (NOW CITY) OF TRIMBLE, CLINTON COUNTY, MISSOURI. to satisfy said debt and costs.

MILLSAP & SINGER, P.C., Successor Trustee 612 Spirit Drive St. Louis, MO 63005 (636) 537-0110 File No: 215315.081423.432440 FC

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WANTED

Old oak color grand piano doesn’t need to work just need shell for art project will haul away for free. Call 816-6040563 thank you.

RUMMAGE SALE

Call 816-539-2111 to place your Classified Ad

LEGALS Thursday, August 10, 2023 • Page A11 THE CLINTON COUNTY LEADER Email your legal notices to Tiffany Wilson at legals@clintoncounty leader.com