About
World War II (1939-1945)
Horace George White was born in Schenectady, New York, on December 16, 1920. He grew up in the city of Schenectady on Regent Street and graduated from Nott Terrace High School in 1938. Before entering the military, he worked at Mohawk National Bank and, for a time, served as a bookkeeper at General Electric.
On October 13, 1942, Horace enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps. He received his training in Sikeston, Missouri; Independence, Kansas; and Brooks Field in San Antonio, Texas. He was a second lieutenant serving with the 756th Bomber Squadron, 459th Bomber Group. On March 17, 1944, Horace was a co-pilot on the B-24H Liberator "Smoky" when it went missing over Vienna, Austria. He is remembered at the Memory Gardens Cemetery and Memorial Park in Colonie, New York.
*B-24H Liberator "Smoky" #42-52406
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry
