Frederick Duane Collinge was born in 1920 in Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin. He was the son of Frederick Albert Collinge and Mary B. Munroe Collinge. He came to Wabash with his parents in 1937 and was graduated from Wabash High school the next year. He attended Indiana university for one year, and then went to Purdue for his second year studying mechanical enginering. He enlisted in the army on Thanksgiving day, 1940, received his commission as a Lieutenant on July 11, 1941, and served as an instructor in southern training camps for several months, before being sent overseas.

Frederick served in the 98th Transport Squadron, 28th Transport Group as a Captain. He was reported missing while flying vital supplies over the "Hump" in northern Burma. The transport plane of which he was co-pilot crashed on Sept 29, l943 between Assam, India and China. He is now buried in the Falls Cemetery, Wabash, Wabash County, Indiana, USA.

Frederick was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

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