Simeon Kelly McGuire
Military
Standing, from left to right : Navigator Lt. Richard Manning (replaced by Lt David G. Prosser on the fateful 3 September 1943 mission); Co-Pilot Lt. Sebron A. McQueen; Pilot Lt. Ralph Bruce and Bombardier Lt. Bertram R. Theiss.
In front, from left to right : Left Waist Gunner S/Sgt Robert D. Muir, Engineer/Top Turret Gunner T/Sgt Etheridge Lamm (killed on the Hannover mission on 26 July 1943), Tail Gunner T/Sgt Simeon K. McGuire, T/Sgt Hedley E. Cassidy (replacing Etheridge Lamm as Engineer), Ball Turret Gunner S/Sgt. George J. "Shorty" Caldon (sick before the 3 September 1943 mission, he was replaced by 1943 par Milton Seldin, not pictured). Radio Operator T/Sgt Mike Fleszar.
Caldon will be made a POW after the loss of B-17 42-30726 on the Schweinfurt raid of 10 October 1943),
(Crew photo via the Theiss family)
Connected People (Caldon and Lamm) to UPL 41064
Object Number - UPL 41064 - Photo of the original Ralph Bruce crew, Grand Island, Nebraska, 24 June 1943, right before their departure for England. Standing, from left to...
Simeon McGuire was Tail Gunner on B-17 #42-29725, shot down 3 September 1943. Prisoner of War (POW).
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-735040
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator, Radio Operator Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16092258
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hi-Lo Jack
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 3 September 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Breathitt, Kentucky | 12 December 1914 | Breathitt, Kentucky |
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Enlisted |
Greensburg, PA 15601, USA | 1 October 1942 | |
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Other Prisoned of War (POW) |
3 September 1943 | ||
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Died |
22 December 1972 | Veterans Hospital, Lebanon, Virginia | |
| Turtle Creek, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania | |||
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Buried |
Simeon McGuire rests at the Good Shepherd Catholic Cemetery in Monroeville, Pennsylvania |
Revisions
MACR 659
NARA WWII Enlistment records
NARA WWII POW records
WWII Draft Card
Veterans Affairs BIRLS death File
Changed first name from Simon to Simeon. Sources:
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=466&mtch=1&cat=WR26&t…
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/record-detail.jsp?dt=893&mtch=1&cat=WR26&t…
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 659