Carl Joseph Van Horn

Military

media-33895.jpeg UPL 33895 MACR 9837 - Page I - Avro Lancaster III ND467. 1st Lt Carl J Van Horn USAAF on detached service with 83 Sqn RAF Coningsby.

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Object Number - UPL 33895 - MACR 9837 - Page I - Avro Lancaster III ND467. 1st Lt Carl J Van Horn USAAF on detached service with 83 Sqn RAF Coningsby.

Enlisted with RCAF. Transferred to USAAF Dec-43. Assigned to 12th Replacement Control Depot. Detached to 83 Sqn RAF flying as a Avro Lancaster navigator on 13 missions. Failed to Return 14th mission to 'bomb by moonlight' Caen, France on the night of 6/7th June 1944. Killed in Action [KIA]. MACR 9837.

Missions: 20/2/44 Stuttgart [6 1/4hr], 25/2/44 Augsburg [7 1/4hr], 18/3/44 Frankfurt [5hr], 24/3/44 Berlin [7hr], 26/3/44 Essen [4 1/2hr], 30/3/44 Nurnberg [7 1/2hr], 20/4/44 Paris [4 1/2hr], 22/4/44 Brunswick [5 1/2hr], 3/5/44 Mailly le Camp [5 3/4hr], 7/5/44 Lanveoc [5 1/4hr], 11/5/44 Bourg [3 3/4hr], 22/5/44 Brunswick [5 3/4hr], 27/5/44 Nantes [5 1/4hr].

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Units served with

12th Replacement Control Depot

Unit Hierarchy: Depot
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Supply

Aircraft

ND467

Aircraft Type: Lancaster

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Born	Ohio, USA	6 September 1918
Died	14000 Caen, France	7 June 1944	Failed to Return 14th mission to 'bomb by moonlight' Caen, France on the night of 6/7th June 1944.
Buried	16 Boulevard Richemond, 14000 Caen, France	8 June 1944	Interred Caen cemetery.
Other Based	Tidworth SP9, UK		Assigned to 12th Replacement Control Depot.
Other Based	Baxter Cl, Coningsby, Lincoln LN4 4TG, UK	7 June 1944	Detached to 83 Sqn RAF flying as a Avro Lancaster navigator on 13 missions. RAF Coningsby.
Buried	6440 S High St, Lockbourne, OH 43137, USA		Re-Interred Saint Joseph Cemetery Lockbourne, Franklin County, OH
Enlisted	Canada		Enlisted with RCAF. Jul-41.
Other Transferred to USAAF	England, UK		Transferred to USAAF.