Flight-Surgeon Captain George R. Hornig of the 61st Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group and Lieutenant Eugene E. Barnum. Passed for publication on 29 November 1943. Printed caption attached to print: '"Ace" Flight-Surgeon is combination family physician, foster-father and chaplain. One of the "ace" flight-surgeons in the European Theatre of Operations in Captain George R. Hornig, 32, of Glen Head, Long Island, New York, a combination of family physician, foster-father and chaplain to the pilots, he "looks after" the men who fly the single-engined P-47 Thunderbolt fighters which escort the big bombers into Germany. Officially, it's his job to keep the combat men in tip-top physical condition; see that their equipment, particularly the oxygen apparatus, is functioning properly, and treat their wounds when they come back shot up. To prepare for this he studied aviation medicine - including psychology and plastic surgery - at the Army Air Corps School at Randolph Field, Texas.'