Horace Doster House Jr
Military7 missions. Attacked by fighters and the pilot injured and several fires on board on mission to Brunswick on 30 Jan 1944, B-17G #42-31415 returned with the fires extinquished but five of the crew had baled out over Germany. Prisoner of War (POW).
Mr House was a ball turret gunner on a B-17, named "Ham on Rye", shot down over Germany in January of 1944 and was held prisoner until the war ended.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Ham-On-Rye
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Charlotte, North Carolina | 21 May 1923 | |
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Died |
Charlotte, NC, USA | 12 September 1999 | |
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Buried |
15 September 1999 | St. Andrews Episcopal Church Memorial Gardens |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self, 8th AF Losses, http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=…