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Coast Guard ship named in memory of Cumming native
Bottoms
A recent ceremony was held in San Diego commissioning the Coast Guard Cutter Benjamin Bottoms, named in honor of a Forsyth County native who lost his life in a World War II rescue mission. - photo by For the FCN
On Nov. 29, 1942, during the height of World War II, Radioman 1st Class Benjamin Bottoms, a Cumming native, and pilot Lt. John Prichard’s Grumman J2F-4 Duck amphibious plane went missing while attempting a rescue mission of the crew of a downed B-17 in eastern Greenland.