Fred L. Brewer Jr.

World War II
Service #O-824827
Unit100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group
RankSecond Lieutenant U.S. Army Air Forces
Entered Service From North Carolina
Date of DeathOctober 29 1944
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Tablets of the Missing
Air Medal
Purple Heart
Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart
Notes

Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Second Lieutenant Fred L. Brewer, Jr. were accounted for in 2023. His name is permanently inscribed on the “Tablets of the Missing” at the Florence American Cemetery.

rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.