Benjamin Bottoms was a United States Coast Guardsman who died while attempting to rescue the crew of a USAAF bomber that had crashed-landed in Greenland in November 1942. Bottoms was the radioman of t
Benjamin Bottoms
Bottoms was the radio operator of this small floatplane, a Grumman J2F-4 Duck.
Distinguished Flying Cross recipient letter, dintisguishing himself by heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight.
USCGC Northland was a United States Coast Guard cruising class of gunboat especially designed for Arctic operations in commission from 1927 to 1938 and from 1939 to 1946. She served during World War I
Benjamin A. Bottoms
…who died while attempting to rescue the crew of a USAAF bomber that had crashed-landed in Greenland in November 1942. Bottoms was the radioman of the USCGC Northland's Grumman J2F-4 Duck floatplane. When a B-17 bomber crash landed near Northland, Bottoms and pilot Lieutenant John A. Pritchard volunteered to search…
USCGC Northland (WPG-49) circa 1929
Northland in Greenland circa 1944
Captured German weather personnel on Northland