Frederick; https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40228601

Birth: Oct. 19, 1921 Death: Sep. 23, 1944
Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Saturday, October 14, 1944

Frederick Van Dien
LIEUT. FREDERICK VAN DIEN IS MISSING IN ACTION
Lieut. Frederick Van DIEN, son of Gertrude and Bert Van DIEN of this city, has been reported missing in action. Mrs. Van Dien received an official telegram from the War department late Friday.
Lieut. Van Dien was a member of the 12th Air Force and piloted a B-25 medium-type bomber. In a recent report received from the U. S. air base on Corsica it was revealed that the Rochester pilot had completed 25 air missions, most of which were in the Mediterranean theater of war.
Frederick spent a furlough with relatives and friends here last summer and upon his return to his base on the east coast he was soon transferred to Europe for combat duty.
Frederick is a graduate of the Rochester High school and is well known to the young people of the community. The message stated Lieut. Van Dien failed to return from a combat mission on Sept. 23.
SOURCE: Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1944
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh

Birth: Oct. 19, 1921 Death: Sep. 23, 1944
Published in The Rochester Sentinel
Saturday, October 14, 1944

Frederick Van Dien
LIEUT. FREDERICK VAN DIEN IS MISSING IN ACTION
Lieut. Frederick Van DIEN, son of Gertrude and Bert Van DIEN of this city, has been reported missing in action. Mrs. Van Dien received an official telegram from the War department late Friday.
Lieut. Van Dien was a member of the 12th Air Force and piloted a B-25 medium-type bomber. In a recent report received from the U. S. air base on Corsica it was revealed that the Rochester pilot had completed 25 air missions, most of which were in the Mediterranean theater of war.
Frederick spent a furlough with relatives and friends here last summer and upon his return to his base on the east coast he was soon transferred to Europe for combat duty.
Frederick is a graduate of the Rochester High school and is well known to the young people of the community. The message stated Lieut. Van Dien failed to return from a combat mission on Sept. 23.

SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1944
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh

57th Bomb Wing Historical Researcher Barbi Ennis Connolly Princessbarbi_B25@msn.com

Frederick L Van Dien