Harry Clarence Horst Jr

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Harry Horst was Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner on B-17G #42-38033 "Man O'War" shot down by fighters on return from the 20 March 1944 mission to Frankfurt. Crashed near Breuil, 20km NW of Reims, France. He was hit in the head and killed by a 20mm shell. Killed in Action (KIA).

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Marvin Harold Benz

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37231127
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

John Wesley Crowley

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 34601869
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

John Andrew Dunaway

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-745054
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Henry Kane

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-690106
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

John Katsaros

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11130671
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Aircraft

42-38033

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Man OWar
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 612th Bomb Squadron

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Killed in Action (KIA).

20 March 1944 by a 20mm shell on board B-17G #42-38033 "Man O'War"

Buried

Breuil, France 30 March 1944 in the communal cemetery in Breuil, France

Born

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MACR 3332

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces, http://www.401bg.org/Main/History/Members/Details.aspx?ID=620