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Identity
Person No.
31335
Old ROH no.
2125
Service No.
P1/40567
Last Name
Liebenberg 41
First Name
Tertius
Initials
T
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
1926 (±1 yr) 140
Age at Death
25
Death Record
Date of Death
09 June 1951 86
Cause code
KIA 14,811
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action 14,686
Killed in action, in North American F-51 Mustang #333. 2Lt T. Liebenberg, a new pilot in the squadron, was about to undertake his first mission from K-10. Take off time was approximately 07H00 and 2Lt Liebenberg, in the No.4 position, was the last to take off. As his aircraft gathered speed it started veering to the left, off the runway in the direction of the control tower. It struck a ditch, wiping the undercarriage off, and collided with a parked American aircraft, bursting into flames as it did so. He died in the resulting fire
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Second Lieutenant
Regiment
2 Squadron 109
Corps
South African Air Force 3,524
Unit
Unknown
Defence Force
UDF 24,809
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
South Africa 23,879
Locality
Northern Cape 808
Cemetery
UNITED NATIONS PUSAN CEMETERY 13
Grave Reference
Plot 13, Row 1, Grave 434 1
Memorial
Approach walkways to the Wall of Remembrance, UNMCK, Busan. Photo: Bubbahotepblues, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_of_Remembrance,_UN_Memorial_Cemetery,_Busan,_South_Korea.jpg)
Names on Grave
Memorial
United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea (UNMCK)
Location
Tanggok, Nam District, Busan, South Korea
Address
woonam-ro 93beon-gil 93, Nam-gu, Busan, South Korea
Coordinates
35.12845, 129.09623 · OpenStreetMap
Panel
Grave
On the panel
Plot 13, Row 1, Grave 434
Unit History
Part of
Rhodesian Air Force - Squadrons
Notes

Son of Mr. H. C. Liebenberg, of the Hill, Johannesburg. ref. 85 years of SAAF

Research notes


5 Sep 2026: Unit "2 Squadron" (a squadron, SAAF's regiment-equivalent) promoted to Regiment, per John's decision. Corps (South African Air Force) unchanged.
25 Sep 2026, Unit2 service-branch sweep: the stored Secondary Unit "Army" was CLEARED. It was not a sub-unit, it was a service-branch word, and it CONTRADICTED this record's own Branch, "Air Force". Across the roll 787 records carried such a contradiction; judged against Corps and Regiment -- independent of both columns -- the evidence backed Branch 744 times and Unit2 not once. Branch is therefore kept and the contradicting word removed. Nothing is guessed: this man's branch of service is already recorded, and his sub-unit, if any, is simply not known.

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External References
Stories 1
on 03 July 2001 · via source
2Lt T. Liebenberg, a new pilot in the squadron, was about to undertake his first mission from K-10. Take off time was approximately 07H00 and 2Lt Liebenberg, in the No.4 position, was the last to take off. As his aircraft gathered speed it started veering to the left, off the runway in the direction of the control tower. It struck a ditch, wiping the undercarriage off, and collided with a parked American aircraft, bursting into flames as it did so. He died in the resulting fire, and was buried in the UN cemetery at Pusan.
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