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  • Thomas McGuire
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  • Thomas Buchanan McGuire Jr. (August 1, 1920 – January 7, 1945) was one of the most decorated American combat pilots of World War II. He was the second highest scoring American ace of the war and was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. McGuire was memorialized by the renaming of Fort Dix Army Air Force Base in Burlington County, New Jersey, to McGuire Air Force Base in 1948.
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  • 475
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Number
  • 2
serviceyears
  • 1941
Birth Date
  • 1920-08-01
Branch
death place
  • KIA at Negros Island
Name
  • Major Thomas B. McGuire, Jr.
Type
  • service-star
Caption
  • Major Thomas McGuire next to his P-38 "Pudgy "
Width
  • 80
Ribbon
  • Presidential Unit Citation .svg
  • Phliber rib.png
service type
  • oak
placeofburial label
  • Place of burial
Birth Place
  • Ridgewood, New Jersey
Awards
death date
  • 1945-01-07
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placeofburial
abstract
  • Thomas Buchanan McGuire Jr. (August 1, 1920 – January 7, 1945) was one of the most decorated American combat pilots of World War II. He was the second highest scoring American ace of the war and was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. McGuire was memorialized by the renaming of Fort Dix Army Air Force Base in Burlington County, New Jersey, to McGuire Air Force Base in 1948.