Identity
Person No.
30820
Service No.
P1/39508
Last Name
First Name
Amos
Initials
A
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
31
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause code
KIA 14,781
Killed in action
Cause of Death
Killed in action, in North American F-51 Mustang #346. Capt A. Janse van Rensburg was the leader of a flight armed with VT fused bombs for flak suppression. After encountering little flak at their primary target, he led the flight to a village south-east of Suan, that was being used as a supply dump. They bombed, rocketed and strafed the village, and during their last strafing run Lt Parsonson, flying in the No.3 position, saw his leader's aircraft take hit's from .50 " machine gun fire. It immediately began streaming glycol and dived towards the ground, out of control. Lt Parsonson, who was between the leader and the ground, had to take evasive action to prevent a collision, and 2Lt Hansen, flying in the No.4 position, saw Capt Janse van Rensburg slumped forward over his controls. His aircraft failed to recover and dived straight into the ground
Military Service
Branch
Air Force
Rank
Captain
Regiment
Unit
Unknown
Secondary Unit
Army
Defence Force
UDF 24,808
Union Defence Force
Location
Country
Locality
Unknown
Cemetery
Grave Reference
Memorial
Memorial
Location
Tanggok, Nam District, Busan, South Korea
Address
Coordinates
Panel
On the panel
Panel 13
Unit History
Part of
Notes
ref. 85 years of SAAF
Research notes
Locality was wrongly set to "Gauteng" -- corrected 28 Aug 2026 (second pass, this time verified against Cemetery rather than AddInfo text, after the first AddInfo-based pass was found to be unreliable and reverted). This person's own Cemetery is unambiguously outside South Africa; several other people at the same cemetery already correctly show a blank Locality. Cleared rather than guessed at a specific region.
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.
Citations
Unknown
External References
- South African War Graves Project open source ↗
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United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea
open source ↗
United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea (UNMCK), Busan — South African Korean War dead.
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