Military Involvement
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Bernard Karl Martin Seitzinger was born Nov, 5, 1914 to John L. and Magdalene Gosch Seitzinger. He died Nov. 27, 1951 and is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing - USAF - Korea at the Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Hawaii and in Hope Lutheran Cemetery, Germanville, IA.
Maj. Seitzinger served with the U.S. Air Force in World War II and Korea. He was a German POW in World War II. In the Korean War he was the pilot of a F-84E Thunderjet Fighter with the 7th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 49th Fighter-Bomber Group and was KIA in North Korea while on a combat mission, strafing enemy rail facilities when he crashed into enemy boxcars. His remains were not recovered. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Purple Heart with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
Source: ancestry.com; abmc.gov
ServiceMen Research done by WWII Researcher, Pat Holt Juon, Feb 2021