[Fred L. Dungan oral history interview (Part 2 of 2)]


AFAA interview with Fred L. Dungan, Tape 2 of 2, Side A
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Title

[Fred L. Dungan oral history interview (Part 2 of 2)]

Description

In this two-part oral history, fighter ace Fred L. Dungan discusses his military service with the United States Navy during World War II. In part two, he provides clarifying details regarding his wartime experiences and the combat missions discussed in the previous interview. He also shares additional information about his training and service history and describes other notable incidents from his time in the Pacific Theater.

Date

1990

Extent

1 sound cassette (51 min., 36 sec.) : analog ; 4 x 2.5 in

Language

Rights

Bibliographic Citation

The American Fighter Aces Association Oral Interviews/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

2002-02-13_AV_063_01
2002-02-13_AV_063_02
2002-02-13_AV_063_transcription

Interviewee

Biographical Text

Fred L. Dungan was born on July 27, 1921 in Los Angeles, California. He joined the United States Navy in 1941 and graduated from flight training the following year. Assigned to Project Affirm, a night fighter development unit, Dungan was placed with Night Fighting Squadron 76 (VF(N)-76), one of the first carrier-based night fighter squadrons to fly Grumman F6F Hellcats equipped with air-to-air radar. He served aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10) and USS Hornet (CV-12), flying both daytime and nighttime missions over the Marshall Islands, Guam, the Bonin Islands, and other areas in the Pacific Theater. Dungan remained in the Reserves after the war and retired as a lieutenant commander in 1963. In his civilian life, he worked as a fixed-base operator at Teterboro Airport, then as a sales representative for the 3M Company until his retirement in 1982. Dungan passed away in 2018.

Biographical information courtesy of: Boyce, Ward J., ed., American fighter aces album. Mesa, Ariz: American Fighter Aces Association, 1996.

Note

This recording is presented in its original, unedited form. Please note that some interviews in this collection may contain adult language, racial slurs, and/or graphic descriptions of wartime violence.