ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 85161
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| Date: | Tuesday 27 November 1951 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Republic F-84E Thunderjet |
| Owner/operator: | 7th FBS, 49th FBG, USAF |
| Registration: | 51-636 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Chinnamp'o, Sukch'ŏn County, South P'yŏngan province -
 North Korea
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | K-2 Taegu AB, Dong District, Daegu, South Korea (RKTN) |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Republic F-84E-30-RE Thunderjet 51-636, 7th FBS, 49th FBG, USAF: Written off (destroyed) November 27 1951 when lost (failed to return) from a combat mission over North Korea. On interdiction mission, failed to pull out of strafing run, crashed into boxcars near Chinnamp'o, Sukch'ŏn County, South P'yŏngan province, approximately 50 km southwest of Pyongyang. No egress noted. Pilot Major Bernard Karl Martin Seitzinger, USAF (Service Number: AO401244) believed MIA/KIA.
According to the following biography of the pilot:
"Major Seitzinger was a veteran of WWII. In 1943, he was shot down near Mt. Etna, escaped his captors and hiked his way across Sicily to friendly lines. On Tuesday, November 27th, 1951, the Group Operations officer led two flights of F-84E jet fighter aircraft from Seitz' squadron on a rail interdiction mission north of Sukchon. Major Seitzinger was the leader of the second flight, call sign 'Mercury Crimson'. While returning from the primary objective, the two flights attacked a concentration of railway boxcars just west of Chinnamp'o (Namp'o). The eyewitness accounts are not absolutely conclusive, but it appears that Ben's jet may have been struck by 'friendly fire' from another F-84E. He was known as "Ben" or "Seitz." Final Disposition Date: Posted as "presumed killed in action" November 28, 1951"
He was shot down by a MiG -15 flown by the renowned Russian ace, Yegeny G. Pepelyayaev. The area was under firm control of Communist forces, and no efforts to recover his body was undertaken. When Major Seitzinger was shot down and killed in Korea in 1951, the Russian ace Pepelyayaev relates the incident in his memoirs and states it was an F-80C he shot down. The records of the 7th Fighter Bomber Squadron records that all operational aircraft were F-84Es. Before his death, Major George A. Davis stated that Seitzinger was flying an F-84E.
Awards: DFC, AM (2OLC), PH (2OLC), POW, WWII Victory, EAME (4 x Battle Stars), National Defense, Korean and UN medals.
Nampo (North Korean official spelling: Nampho; pronounced [nam.pʰo]), also spelled Namp'o, is the second largest city by population and an important seaport in North Korea, which lies on the northern shore of the Taedong River, 15 km east of the river's mouth. Formerly known as Chinnamp'o. Nampo is approximately 50 km southwest of Pyongyang, at the mouth of the Taedong River.
Sources:
1. http://forgottenjets.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/F-84.html
2. https://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1951.html
3. https://www.aviationarchaeology.com/dbSearchAF55.asp
4. http://www.accident-report.com/Yearly/1951/5111.html
5. https://www.koreanwar.org/html/26950/korean-war-project-minnesota-ao401244-maj-bernard-karl-martin-seitzinger/
6. https://www.koreanwar.org/dpaa/korwald-all.pdf
7. https://airforce.togetherweserved.com/usaf/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=PersonAssociationExt&ID=21433
8. https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/person/bernard-karl-seitzinger
9. https://toflyandfight.com/captain-bernard-seitzinger-364th-fs/
10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nampo
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