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Chuck Grant's dad, Francis B. Grant, in high school. (Rochester, NY) Captain of the football team by unanimous vote. Played short stop and catcher on their baseball team. Joined track to run the mile. Elected to serve on the executive council for the Athletics representative. Was also elected treasurer (something Chuck seems to always be in his clubs too).

And of course he goes on to get hit by a plane in WW1, but does make it back to the boys and even organizes some games.

#francis b. grant #BoB adjacent

D-Day Pilots for the 506 PIR from Winters Files, Bill Brown's work. (Co. F) Speirs was chalk 62. (Not pictured)

#band of brothers #hbowararchive #roster #bob adjacent

Captain Nye of Fox Co. was replaced in Haguenau

Dick's version in the BoB critque file was that he did it

And Fox Co. guys have a different story where their First Sgt bypassed the chain of command (Obviously their Captain but also Dick) and went right to Sink with a letter. Sink called in the officers and NCOs and discussed their issue with their CO and Nye was relieved.

#James Nye #Fox Company #Dick Winters #from Winters Files Bob Critique 1 #and Fighting Fox Company by Brown and Poyser #BoB adjacent

Capt. Tom Mulvey of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 506PIR

#thomas mulvey #bob adjacent

Been trying to find this guy since Dick has a photo of him like a centerfold and he was another man on his staff, helps when you find out his name is spelled wrong by chancing on an piece of mail he sent. One more person who ends up in LA.

#george haddy #he legit looks like he could be a dick!pick but I don't see Dick mentioning him yet #bob adjacent

Edward Lincoln Grant was the owner of Grant's Pipe shop in San Francisco which I believe is the shop everyone mistakes for being owned by Chuck Grant. Edward was born in Pennsylvania as well, but on the other side of it in Easton. (And no, that's not close if you have never had to drive across that state.) His parents were English immigrants, and he did go home to visit grandparents in the old country when he was little.

Edward goes to war and is selected to be stationed in London at the HQ of COSSACE and is shown on draft cards as being attached to SAC as well as US HQ forward command. His obituary states he was awarded a bronze medal for his part in D-Day planning and liberation of Paris. ( If you like conspiracy theories, know that the British Major who was killed the same night Chuck Grant was shot (Major Watkin) was also part of D-Day planning and the right hand man of Colonel J.L. Austin, and worked with US Colonel Votion at the US Embassy who was involved in US Strategic Intelligence. Watkin was a SHAEF Major looking at captured paperwork and possibly interviewing high level POWs in May 1945. BTW- Edward Grant was also a SGT. Grant as a T/4) In March 1944 he is being recalled from Detached Service with SHAEF. His last Morning report that I have access to is June 26, 1944 and he's in an unassigned section HQ detachment, and they are discharging him to accept appointment of WOJG -Warrant Officer Junior Grade.

TL/DR: I've read the Craver JAG file so many times I'm the guy with the string board meme.

On the family front: Edward's father , James, died in Utah and mother remarried to a Dan Shanahan. Included are articles below about his sister Winifred and the family tragedy that unfolded in 1947 when he was going to school after the war. Winifred's family had her mental health evaluated and it was recommended she be institutionalized and as the Doctor was telling Edward this, she took her step-father's gun and shot her mother then shot at Ed when he came in. Somehow the press was able to show up in time to take pictures of the father in law in shock and Winifred being hauled off. A few months later she 'jumps from a high place' while at the institution and kills herself. Meanwhile her husband, Oliver, is probably still at sea as Edward is the one making the funeral arrangements.

He carries on to finish school and operate of of the oldest small businesses in San Francisco.

Montgomery Street is where the offices that handle Lewis Nixon's many businesses and paperwork are located. Odds are he knew this was not Chuck Grant's store as it's in walking distance from those offices and this guy doesn't miss details. Although there is no specific 'tobacco shop' in San Francisco that is mentioned in Christenson's write up, going with Grant's first was a no brainer. Where the San Francisco thing originated is still in question but Christenson's Winter's Files summary is probably what Ambrose went off of.

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