A/C # 42-30611 "HORNY" XR-D, 349TH SQUADRON, ASSIGNED TO 100TH LATE JUNE
1943. CREW ALSO FLEW 230023 XR-M "FOREVER YOURS". THIS PLANE WAS NAMED
AFTER A FAMOUS CANDY BAR DURING THAT TIME AND THIS WAS PAINTED ON THE SIDE
OF THE AIRCRAFT IN RED LETTERING IN THE SAME FASHION AS THE LETTERING FOR
THE CANDY BAR . THIS AIRCRAFT, CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF WAS NEVER CALLED
HORNY. (INFO FROM HENRY HENINGTON TO MPF 5/2002)
2nd LT HENINGTON RECEIVED THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS THREE TIMES
DURING HIS TOUR OF DUTY (AUGUST 17, 1943, NOV 13, 19, 26 1943 COMBINED &
UPON COMPLETION OF 25 MISSIONS). TG S/SGT CHARLES A HANTUSCH WOULD ALWAYS
SAY "MY GOD, I'M HUNGRY" AFTER BOMBS AWAY.
**S/SGT WILLIAM S. BLEVINS (WG) FLEW ON THIS CREW FOR THE FIRST FIVE
MISSIONS AND THEN WAS RFS. ORIGINAL WG (CPL ORTH) TAKEN OFF CREW AT
BOVINGDON (NEW CREWS ORIENTATION CENTER)
*LT MOORE WAS FLYING WITH LT JOHN F. STEPHENS (KIESSLING CREW). HE IS
REPLACED ON THE HENINGTON CREW BY 1st LT HOWARD J. KELLY FROM THE ORIGINAL
SAMMY BARR CREW.
*S/SGT MEYER WAS FLYING WITH LT. FRANK HARTE CREW, HE WAS A TOGG ON
THIS MISSION
*S/SGT JANDERUP WAS FLYING WITH THE LT. JOHN BROWN CREW
T/SGT JOHN J. KOVACS ROG WAS ALSO KNOWN TO FLY WITH THIS CREW.
ACCORDING TO HENINGTON, HE REMEMBERS KOVACS FLYING MANY MISSIONS WITH HIS
CREW. (mpf )
349TH SQDN. . (Following from Jim Brown) "THIS CREW JOINED THE 100TH IN
EARLY JULY 1943 AND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST FOUR REPLACEMENT CREWS (ROANE,
JUSTICE, MORENO AND HENINGTON) TO JOIN THE GROUP. . OF INTEREST IS THAT
JIM BROWN NEVER CONSIDERED COWBOY ROANE A REPLACEMENT SINCE HIS OLD FRIEND
WAS IN THE 100TH IN THE STATES -( JIM MAINTAINED UNTIL HIS DEATH THAT
ROANE WAS NOT A REPLACEMENT AND NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN LISTED AS SUCH
SINCE HIS CREW WAS ONLY A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATE IN ARRIVING). . PW I HAVE
FOUND NO RECORD OF THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THIS CREW, BUT DALTON WAS KIA
FLYING WITH J. C. GOSSAGE. SEE S. O. C. P. 18/19 AND 38. ALSO "BOWMAN'S
DIARY (P. 27) NOTES THIS CREW DITCHED ON 3 SEP 1943 (PARIS, BEAUMONT LE
ROGER, AF (S. T. )) BUT WERE RESCUED AND RETURNED TO THORPE ABBOTTS. THE
AIRCRAFT THEY USUALLY FLEW WAS #42-30611, "HORNY". I HAVE DETERMINED THAT
LT A. FAHLSTEDT WAS FLYING AS BOMBARDIER WHEN THE DITCHING OCCURED AND
SUFFERED A SEVERE BACK INJURY. " JB
CREW ON SEP 3, 1943 MISSION TO PARIS A/C 42-30611 "HORNY"
