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Re: RAF Thomas W. Horton
Wow. This is wonderful. Thanks for the info.
The great news is that I chatted with him yesterday for a while when he visited the NASM Udvar-Hazy Museum. That is definitely him as he still looks like himself from that picture in the archive posting. He lives near Washington, D.C. now. He looks great and loved talking about his RAF experiences. He was interested in whether we had a Mossie on display, but of course the NASM's aircraft is still at Garber in pieces and probably some years away from going on display.
The Garber facility is basically shut down. Last weekend all of the restoration tool shops were brought over from Garber to the new facility at the Udva-Hazy Museum. The restoration area is viewable via (plexi)-glass walls and we expect that a number of un-restored aircraft will be placed around the perimeter so at least they can be viewed while other restorations are going on.
Wing Commander Horton relayed that he still has his logbook. He said he had one encounter with an FW-190 which shot out one of the engines of the A-20 he was flying at that time. He also reported that on one of his Mosquito missions an aircraft whizzed by in the opposite direction at a very high speed. He said they could not readily identify it until a few months later when they learned it had been an Uhu He-219.
Tony
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