Benjamin A. Bottoms, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1913
Place of Birth: Cumming, Georgia, United States
Date of Death: 28-Nov-1942
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Benjamin A. Bottoms
- Benjamin Bottoms was a United States Coast Guard radio operator who died while attempting to rescue the crew of a USAAF bomber that had crashed-landed in Greenland in November 1942.
- Bottoms was the radio operator of the USCGC Northland's Grumman J2F-4 Duck floatplane.
- When a B-17 bomber crashlanded near the Northland the Northland's plane was assigned to search for it.
- Bottoms's pilot Lieutenant John A.
- Pritchard sighted the bomber, and landed as close to the wreck as possible—four miles away.
- Pritchard and Bottoms were able to assist two of the injured bomber crew to their plane, and take them back to the Northland.
- However, on their second rescue visit they encountered bad weather, and crashed.
- It took seventy-five years to locate their bodies.
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