Frederick Funderburg Jr

Military
media-24802.jpeg UPL 24802 1LT Frederick Funderburg, Jr.
Fighter Pilot
332nd Fighter Group - 301st Fighter Squadron - 15th AF
MIA?KIA - 19 December 1944

Object Number - UPL 24802 - 1LT Frederick Funderburg, Jr. Fighter Pilot 332nd Fighter Group - 301st Fighter Squadron - 15th AF MIA?KIA - 19 December 1944

Scored the first victories for the 301st FS. Went missing 19 December 1944. He was declared dead 30 December 1945,

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Tuskegee, AL, USA 21 February 1943

Other

Combat Mission

Adriatic Sea near Udine UD, Italy 9 June 1944 Shot down two Bf-109's

Other

MIA/KIA

near Landshut, Germany 19 December 1944 Funderburg was last seen Dec. 19 during an escort mission to Landshut and Mahldorf, Germany, flying a P-51 Mustang nicknamed Stinky III."About five minutes from the target bubbles, blue flight was caught in the middle of a concentration of flak," 1st Lt. Stanley L. Harris wrote in a military report. "In the following evasive action, I became separated from 1st Lt. Frederick D. Funderburg Jr. and 2nd Lt. Andrew D. Marshall, who were the other two men in this flight with me. I joined up with the nearest group of planes and I did not see them again. I heard radio transmission from both of them later, however, and they were trying to join up with another squadron. They were not heard or seen after this."

Born

Georgia, USA

Buried

No Known Grave Tablets of The Missing Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial Nettuno Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale Lazio, Italy

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