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Horace Seaver "Stump" Carswell Jr. (July 18, 1916 – October 26, 1944) was a United States Army major who was killed in action while serving as a member of the Army Air Forces during World War II. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor .
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Carswell Air Force Base was named after Medal of Honor recipient Major Horace S. Carswell, Jr. (1916–1944). Major Carswell was returning from an attack on Japanese shipping in the South China Sea on 26 October 1944. He attempted to save a crewmember whose parachute had been destroyed by flak.
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Horace S. Carswell Jr. † Air Forces: Major: over the South China Sea October 26, 1944: Assigned to the 14th USAAF in China, Carswell was flying a B-24 Liberator on the night of October 26, 1944, on a single-aircraft mission against a Japanese convoy in the South China Sea.
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Namesake: Major Horace Seaver Carswell Jr. 8th Air Force 1948–1955 7th Bomb Wing 1948–1991 19th Air Division 1951–1988 7th Wing 1991–1992; 11th Bomb Wing 1951–1957; 43d Bomb Wing 1960–1964; 4123d Strategic Wing 1957–1959