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  • NASCAR Team Honors Major Thomas McGuire’s Legacy

    The colors of Major Thomas McGuire’s personal plane, “Pudgy” flew again the weekend of July 22 at Pocono Raceway in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race Explore the Pocono Mountains 225. Team Jordan Anderson Racing painted their number 27 entry in tribute to the design that Maj McGuire flew during World

  • New Jersey Civil Air Patrol Honors Maj. Thomas B. McGuire, Jr.

    New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy issued a letter today remembering the “life and legacy” of Maj. Thomas B. McGuire, Jr., World War II hero and one of the U.S. military’s most decorated fighter pilots. Members of Civil Air Patrol presented the letter to U.S. Air Force Col. Wes Adams, Joint Base

  • The Tommy B. McGuire, Jr. Story

    Major Thomas B. McGuire, Jr., was born on 1 August 1920 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. His father, Thomas B. McGuire, Sr., owned a Packard automobile dealership in Paterson, New Jersey, and the family of Irish descent was fairly affluent during the Depression. After his parents separated, he moved with

  • Joint Base hosts JCOC, tells Air Force story

    Total force Airmen welcomed 44 visitors attending the 2017 Joint Civilian Orientation Conference here, Aug. 11, showcasing the joint base’s Rapid Global Mobility integration with the Air Force and greater Department of Defense.   The only outreach program sponsored by the Secretary of Defense, the