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Lt Col Grambo was shot down on his second mission.

Statement of 2nd Lt Benjamin Rader, who flew in the same mission: "I was easing over Lt Col Grambo on safe course home. He said his left engine was hit by flak and he had feathered it. He was constantly losing altitude until he reached 8,000 feet when his left dead engine burst into flame. He turned right and down into the clouds. When I last saw him his canopy was off and he was climbing out of the cockpit. This was in the vicinity of Meppel and the time was 1218."
Statement of 1st Lt Russell G Quinn, who also flew in this mission: "I was flying at 25,000 feet and saw Lt Col Grambos plane smoking from left engine in the vicinity of Meppel at 8,000 feet. He banked toward right and down. Right after this I saw a chute going down into the clouds. This was at 1218."
Parts of the crashed plane can be found in the airforce museum in Soesterberg, the Netherlands.

Lt col Grambo was the commanding officer of the squadron.