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| Lt. George Scully flew a TBM Avenger from the light carrier USS Langley. https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=23706 27 Jan 1945 The Pittsburg Press https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76202780/george-frederick-scully |
George Fredrick Scully never had a chance to reach 100 years old today. Instead, he sacrificed his life for our freedom.
He was born on August 15, 1919 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. His parents John and Sophronia were born in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, respectively. His father worked as a tube mill foreman and later as a pipe mill electrical engineer. George had an older brother and sister. By 1940 he was attending the University of Arizona and obtained a private pilot license.
He enlisted in the US Navy in June 1941. He was trained as a torpedo bomber pilot and ended up flying TBM Avengers for VT-44 where he became the squadron commander with the rank of lieutenant. This carrier based squadron served on the light carrier USS Cabot beginning in September 1944. One month latter it was assigned to the light carrier USS Langley.
On October 7, 1944, Lt. Scully was flying a TCM-1c (#45499) Avenger torpedo bomber. He was lost near Formosa and was reported as missing in action. The US Navy was in the area to destroy land based Japanese bombers so they would not interfere with the upcoming invasion of Leyte.
His cenotaph grave is at Arlington National Cemetery.
Last year on this date I profiled Troy Blackburn, 7th Infantry Division. You can read about Troy here.
On behalf of the fallen, if you would like to see more people become aware of this project to honor the WW2 fallen, be sure to share with others on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Thanks for your interest!
I created this video to explain why I started this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXt8QA481lY.
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