I am looking for relatives of 1st Lt. Frederick W. Langhorst, US Army Air Forces, of Yonkers, New York. He was born about 1922. His father and mother were Fred and Freda Langhorst. He had two sisters: Anna and Dorothy. According to his US Army enlistment record, he enlisted in the US Army Air Forces on July 2, 1941. He was serving as the co-pilot of a C-109 tanker aircraft (serial number 44-49628) when it went missing in the China-Burma-India theater of operations of World War II on July 17, 1945. He and the rest of his crew, who were assigned to the 1330th Army Air Force Base Unit, were declared "presumed dead" on July 18, 1946. On October 22, 2007, independent investigator Clayton Kuhles reported to the Defense Department that he had located and visited the crash site of this aircraft near the town of Bishmaknagar, on the side of a mountain, in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. 1st Lt. Langhorst is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.

Gary Zaetz
Cary, North Carolina
garyngina@earthlink.net