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TSGT Paul R. Horton

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TSGT Paul R. Horton

Birth
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
15 Jul 1944 (aged 19)
England
Burial
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA GPS-Latitude: 42.4876633, Longitude: -71.1428528
Plot
Soldiers' Lot, Grave 6
Memorial ID
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Technical Sergeant (T/Sgt.), U.S. Army Air Forces, 326 AAF Bomb SC

Memorial 1946, Gold Star Heroes [and] Honor Roll, pub. for St. Charles Borromeo Church, Woburn, Mass., by the Archdiocese of Boston, p. 33:

T/Sgt. PAUL R. HORTON

Paul Horton, son of Mrs. Theresa L. Horton, was born in Woburn in May, 1925, and was educated in the Woburn Public Schools. Prior to his entrance into the Army Air Corps[,] Horton was employed at the Wilmington Packing Company. In November of 1942 he entered the service and became attached to the Eighth Air Force. He received his basic training in Drew Field, Florida, and Scott Field, Illinois, before being sent overseas. He was killed in a plane crash over England on the fifteenth of July, 1944. He had been awarded the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters, and also the Distinguished Flying Cross. Paul is survived, in addition to his mother, by four sisters, Eleanor, Grace, Dorothy, and Rita, and two brothers, Robert and Edward.

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T/Sgt. Horton's remains were reinterred from England to Woodbrook Cemetery, Woburn, Mass., on Dec. 18, 1948.
Technical Sergeant (T/Sgt.), U.S. Army Air Forces, 326 AAF Bomb SC

Memorial 1946, Gold Star Heroes [and] Honor Roll, pub. for St. Charles Borromeo Church, Woburn, Mass., by the Archdiocese of Boston, p. 33:

T/Sgt. PAUL R. HORTON

Paul Horton, son of Mrs. Theresa L. Horton, was born in Woburn in May, 1925, and was educated in the Woburn Public Schools. Prior to his entrance into the Army Air Corps[,] Horton was employed at the Wilmington Packing Company. In November of 1942 he entered the service and became attached to the Eighth Air Force. He received his basic training in Drew Field, Florida, and Scott Field, Illinois, before being sent overseas. He was killed in a plane crash over England on the fifteenth of July, 1944. He had been awarded the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters, and also the Distinguished Flying Cross. Paul is survived, in addition to his mother, by four sisters, Eleanor, Grace, Dorothy, and Rita, and two brothers, Robert and Edward.

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T/Sgt. Horton's remains were reinterred from England to Woodbrook Cemetery, Woburn, Mass., on Dec. 18, 1948.


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