Jay Zeamer, Jr.
| Jay Zeamer, Jr. | |
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Lt. Col. Jay Zeamer, Jr.
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| Born |
July 25, 1918 Carlisle, Pennsylvania |
| Died | March 22, 2007 (aged 88) Boothbay Harbor, Maine |
| Place of burial | Arlington National Cemetery |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
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| Service/branch | United States Army Air Forces |
| Years of service | 1939 - 1945 |
| Rank |
 Lieutenant Colonel
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| Unit | 65th Bomb Sqdn, 43rd Bomb Grp Fifth Air Force |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
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Jay Zeamer Jr. (July 25, 1918 – March 22, 2007) was a pilot of the United States Army Air Forces in the South Pacific during World War II, and received the Medal of Honor for valor during an air mission on June 16, 1943. After the war, he became an aeronautical engineer and worked in the aerospace industry.
Born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Zeamer grew up in Orange, New Jersey, the son of a women's club leader and sales representative for (later vice-president of) a global leather exporter. He spent many summers at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he enjoyed rowing a homemade boat in the harbor.
Zeamer became an Eagle Scout at the age of fourteen. (He is one of only nine known Eagle Scouts who also received the Medal of Honor. The others are Aquilla J. Dyess, Robert Edward Femoyer, Eugene B. Fluckey, Thomas R. Norris, Arlo L. Olson, Mitchell Paige, Benjamin L. Salomon, and Leo K. Thorsness.) After a freshman year of high school in Orange, he was enrolled by his father in Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, where he completed the Senior Infantry Reserve Officers Training Corps course. Winning honors in marksmanship each year he was there, he served in the Culver Rifles Color Guard his last two years. After completing Advanced Camp for the Reserve Officers Training Corps, he was given a certificate in lieu of a commission in the Infantry Officer Reserves Corps for which he could apply upon his twenty-first birthday.
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