Sergeant Edwin W. Horton Jr.

Edwin Weston Horton Jr. was born on 28 March 1916, in North Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts. His father was Edwin Weston Horton and his mother was Beatrice Hannah Rogers.

He attended school for many years in a one room schoolhouse. The one-room schoolhouse faced south on the road to West Barnstable with separate boys' and girls' entrances.

The classroom were Edwin Weston Horton Jr. attended lessons for 8 years.

Edwin Weston Horton Jr. married Monta Vana Horne on 3 April 1944, in Levy, Florida.  They were the parents of 2 daughters and two sons. A son and a daughter daughter died before Horton Jr. died.

He entered service on 30 September 1935 at Providence, Rhode Island/

The family lived in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts for about 15 years and Perris Judicial Township, Riverside, California, United States in 1940.

This aircraft was the 16th aircraft loaded onto the US Hornet in San Francisco. The plane was supposed to take off as a demonstration flight for the other crews aboard the USS Hornet and the sailors involved in Task Force 18. The takeoff was assumed to be just off the coast of San Francisco.  Doolittle would take the aircraft to Tokio because it could then be used during the mission and could also drop bombs over Japan.

After the bombing of Japan the crew jumped out of the plane with their bags filled with candy and chocolate. When they jumped out of the plane it was raining hard and there was a lot of wind. The crew ended up in the Zheijan province not far from where crew 12 also came down with their parachutes. They were picked up by the Chinese resistance and taken to free China and later smuggled out of the country. 

There is something wrong with the group photo of the crew members. The tall man pictured in the center of the group photo is believed by many Raiders to have never been on the Doolitlle mission with them. The soldier that actually went on a mission is therefore not in the picture. Basically the actual Horton Jr. is not in the group photo. I have the image of the actual Horton Jr. 

The real Edwin Weston Horton Jr.

He died on 26 November 2008, in Florida and was buried in Beal Memorial Cemetery, Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa, Florida. Edwin Weston Horton Jr. was injuried in a car accident during september 2008. He was severely wounded and died at Fort Walton Beach.

By then he was a retired United States Air Force Master Sgt. Edwin Horton Jr., 92 years old, and last surviving crewmember of plane #10.

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