Lincoln Delmar Bundy

Military ROLL OF HONOUR
media-29450.jpeg UPL 29450 2nd Lt Lincoln Delmar Bundy.

Object Number - UPL 29450 - 2nd Lt Lincoln Delmar Bundy.

Hit by flak in his Mustang and crashed near La Maillerave on 10 Jun 1944. Made his way south 300 km, found by a friendly French family who passed him on to the Maquis, he was then passed to the British SAS to arrange his escape. He, together with the SAS were discovered by the Germans and all were executed. In December 1944 the mass grave was discovered in the Bois de Guron, South-west of Poitiers. All bodies were exhumed, and reburied with full military honours, on 23 December 1944, in the village graveyard of Rom, France.



Awards: PH.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
  • Nicknames: Rauk-et
  • Unit: 352nd Fighter Group 486th Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

St George, UT, USA 12 February 1918 Son of James Dennis and Chloe Geneva [Van Leuven] Bundy.

Enlisted

4475 England Ave, Nellis AFB, NV 89191, USA 23 January 1942 Las Vegas Aaf Nevada

Other

Shot down / baled out

76940 La Mailleraye-sur-Seine, France 10 June 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) area patrol hit whilst strafing a truck convoy baled out Le Lailleraye, France 10-Jun-44.

Other

Evaded capture

17610 Saint-Sauvant, France 10 June 1944 - 3 July 1944 Evaded capture, passed via Maquis to SAS troops to arrange his escape.

Other

Killed in Action (KIA)

17610 Saint-Sauvant, France 3 July 1944 Executed along with SAS troops.

Buried

Bois de Guron, 86700 Payré, France 3 July 1944 Interred Mass grave by SS troops.

Buried

79120 Rom, France 23 December 1944 Re-Interred Rom cemetery, France

Born

Mohave County, AZ, USA

Buried

Tablets of the missing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial

Buried

Salt Lake City, UT, USA Memorialised Memory Grove Memorial Salt Lake City Salt Lake County Utah, USA

Revisions

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Capitalized all the words in the "Role/job" field to aid readability.

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Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- MACR 5552 ;
- Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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ContributorPhil H
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Behind Enemy Lines with the SAS, by Paul McCue.

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ContributorPhil H
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Behind Enemy Lines with the SAS, by Paul McCue.

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"Behind Enemy Lines with the SAS" by Paul McCue.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5552 / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list

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