When Jay Harold Horn was born in 1921 in Ohio, his father, Alta, was 32 and his mother, Pauline, was 22. He served as a First Lieutenant and Pilot on the B-17G #42-102552 "Horn's Hornets" aircraft, 339th Bomber Squadron, 96th Bomber Group, Heavy, U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.

The plane took off from 138 Snetterton Heath, Norfolk, UK on a bombing mission over the oil storage facilities at Gennevilliers, a suburban area of Paris. While the B-17 inflicted major damage upon the target, Paris was surrounded with infamous flak, and two of the twenty-five B-17s were shot down, including the Horn's Hornets. His plane spun down after flak knocked off the entire tail assembly and crashed in the streets of Rue Pajol and Rue Ricquet, Paris. Seven members from his crew were Killed in Action and three were taken as prisoners.

1LT Horn went down with the plane and was killed. He is now buried in the North Lawn Cemetery, Canton, Stark County, Ohio, USA.

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