George Ronald Hornig MD
MilitaryAssociated person
George R ‘Doc’ Hornig was responsible for the wellbeing of the pilots he worked with, administering medicine and conducting health checks to keep them flying.
Doc was ‘a combination of family physician, foster-father and chaplain to the pilots’, according to a press photographer who shadowed him on his daily duties at Halesworth, Suffolk. ‘To prepare for this, he studied aviation medicine – including psychology, psychiatry and plastic surgery.’
Doc returned to the United States in October 1945 with souvenirs of his time in Europe, including a Nazi flag and an SS sword. He worked at the North Country Community Hospital in Glen Cove, New York, and died, aged 43, in June 1954.
Awards: WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Holton
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY | 10 March 1911 | Son of Leighton and Gertrude Hornig. |
Died |
Glen Head, NY, USA | 2 June 1954 | |
Buried |
Mount Lebanon Cemetery Glendale, Queens County, NY | 5 June 1954 | Mount Lebanon Cemetery Glendale, Queens County, New York |
Other Practised Medicine |
Glen Cove, NY, USA | Worked in North Country Community Hospital. | |
Based |
Halesworth | Assigned to 61FS, 56FG, 8AF USAAF. |
Revisions
Roger Freeman, 'Wolfpack Warriors', p.240
Obituary in 'Brooklyn Eagle' 4 June 1954 : https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53868916/
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=98891227
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.56thfightergroup.co.uk/personnel.htm