Hit by flak in his Mustang and crashed near La Maillerave on 10 Jun 1944. (Other reports indicated he was shot down by one of the Luftwaffe’s top aces, Staffelkapitän (Squadron Commander) Lutz-Wilhelm Burkhardt of Jagdgeschwader -Fighter Wing 1) He 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 honors, on 23 December 1944, in the village graveyard of Rom, France.  See Site Rom Communal Cemetery for more information on Bundy's Isolated Burial (ISOB).

En hommage au pilote Américain

2nd Lt Lincoln D. BUNDY

 

 

486th Fighter Squadron

352nd Fg/Gr. - 8e Air Force

 

Abattu en combat aerien au-dessus de Crulai le 10 Juin 1944.

 

Execute en foret de Saint-Sauvant (79) le 7 Juillet 1944.

 

Inhume dans la cimetiere de Rom (79).

 

 

English translation:

 

In memory of the US pilot

2nd Lt Lincoln D. Bundy

 

 

486th Fighter Squadron

352nd Fg / Gr. - 8th Air Force

 

Shot down in aerial combat over Crulai on June 10th, 1944.

 

Executed in Saint-Sauvant Forest on July 7th, 1944.

 

Buried in the Rom cemetery.