Major jay zeamer biography

US Army Air Forces pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (1918–2007)

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, who received the Medal of Honor for valor during a B-17 Flying Fortress mission on June 16, 1943.

Jay Zeamer Jr. (July 25, – March 22, ) was a pilot of the United States Army Air Forces in the South Pacific during World War II.

On 16 June , Maj. Zeamer (then Capt.) volunteered as pilot of a bomber on an important photographic mapping mission covering the formidably defended area.

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Born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Jay Zeamer and their family later moved to Orange, New Jersey.

Zeamer was born in Pennsylvania but grew up in Orange, New Jersey, with his family spending summers in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.

After the war, he became an aeronautical engineer and worked in the aerospace industry.

Early life

Born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Zeamer grew up in Orange, New Jersey, the son of a women's club leader and sales representative for (and later vice-president of) a global leather exporter.^[1][2] 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.^[3] (He is one of only eleven known Eagle Scouts who also received the Medal of Honor. The others are Aquilla J. Dyess, Robert Edward Femoyer, Eugene B.

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