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Bundy Lincoln Delmar

Name:
Lincoln Delmar Bundy
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-804996
Unit:
486th Fighter Squadron, 352nd Fighter Group
Date of Death:
1944-07-07
State:
Arizona
Cemetery:
Rom Communal Cemetery Rom, Departement des Deux-Sèvres, Poitou-Charentes, France
Plot:
CWGC Section
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Purple Heart
Comments:

2nd Lt Lincoln D. Bundy was shot down over Crulai on June 10th 1944. He had just finished strafing a German truck convoy near Crulai, Normandy, France when he was shot down and went MIA. For half a century, it was assumed he had been killed on that day. On June 11th, 1945, Lt. Bundy was declared dead and awarded a Purple Heart. He evaded capture until July 7th 1944, falling in with the SAS men of Operation Bulbasket, when he was executed in the woods nearby after the latter’s demise along with 30 SAS men. They were taken into the woods near to St Sauvant, forced to dig their own graves then executed by a German firing squad at dawn under the command of SS Major Josef Kieffer. Their bodies were then buried in a mass grave. His death date is June 10, 1944 on his headstone. He also has cenotaphs located in the Memory Grove Memorial in Salt Lake City, and in Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, England.

From Find a Grave:
Postscript: Lincoln was among 34 British SAS Agents who were killed July 7, 1944 by the SS. The soldiers' remains were found in December 1944. Refer to 1996 book by Paul McCue entitled: OPERATION BULBASKET. Excerpt from review for the MUST READ book (2006) "Far From Cactus Flat: The 20th Century Story of a Harsh Land, a Proud Family, and a Lost Son" by Lyman Hafen... "In late June of 1944, Chloe Bundy received a letter at her homestead near the edge of the Grand Canyon on the Arizona Strip. Her heart broke when she opened it and learned that one of her 14 children, a dancing-eyed, square-shouldered boy named Lincoln, had been shot down in his P-51 Mustang fighter plane over Normandy just after D-Day. No more was known of his fate. The spiritually-gifted matriarch knew her son was alive. She was right. But she never knew it as a proven fact in her lifetime. Not until 1996, when a British historian happened upon lost information about a downed American flyer, did Lincoln Bundy's full story come to light. Lincoln Bundy was already a bright and promising rancher before he left for the war in the spring of 1942. He dreamed of coming home and specializing in raising fine horses. On little more than an eighth-grade education, most of it gained in the one-room school at Mt. Trumbull, Lincoln was able to wing his way through flight school and become a fighter pilot. On June 10, 1944, after destroying a truck in a German convoy headed to the Normandy battlefront, Lt. Bundy's plane was hit by flak and went down near the French village of Crulai. For more than a half-century it was assumed the boy from Bundyville was killed that day. Yet somehow his mother knew he was alive. It was more than a half-century later, long after Chloe Bundy was buried in the lonely cemetery at Mt. Trumbull, that the family finally learned the rest of Lincoln's story."
See this website for more on Bundy: https://aircrewremembered.com/bundy-lincoln.html