George Anderson Guy

Military

transferred from Gp HQ to 10th. Per SO#82, 28Nov43, attached to 18th Weather Sq. Per ground roster 25Feb44, Sta Wea Officer

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Units served with

The insignia of the 392nd Bomb Group.

392nd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
Three little girls hold up a balloon celebrating the 100th mission of the 466th Bomb Group in front of a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95592) nicknamed "Black Cat". Handwritten caption on reverse: 'On our 100 Mission party Day- 18 Aug 1944, Attlebridge, 466th- wouldn't it be something if we could identify these girls? How could I do it?'

466th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Places

Aerial photograph of Attlebridge airfield, looking north, the fuel store and a T2 hangar are in the upper centre, 31 January 1946. Photograph taken by No. 90 Squadron, sortie number RAF/3G/TUD/UK/51. English Heritage (RAF Photography).

Attlebridge

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Desoto County, MS, USA 10 November 1914

Died

Solana Beach, CA, USA 23 February 2007 He was founder and Program Manager of the project known as the "Weather Observing and Forecasting System." (Nicknamed "433L," it became a 14-year joint program of both the Department of Defense and the National Weather Service.) 433L is probably, still today, the most extensive, far reaching, and overall effort ever undertaken anywhere, fully to automate weather service, beginning from automating weather observing, then automatically processing and predicting the weather observed and ending up with the tailoring of the predicted weather to the particular needs of its final user. And through that effort -- impossible and unsuccessful as it turned out to be, George Guy became widely known, admired and enormously respected by many, many persons throughout all the atmospheric sciences, throughout government, industry and the academic fields. Col. Guy was born on November 10, 1914 in Love Station, Mississippi. In 1932, he graduated from Memphis Technical High School; and from Memphis State University with a B.S., in 1936. In 1940, he started out as a sanitation engineer for the Mississippi State Board of Health. But, he entered the AAF in December 1942 as an Aviation Cadet in meteorology at MIT and was commissioned as a weather officer in April 1943, whereupon he was assigned to the 18th Weather Squadron in England. After short, post WWII assignments at Albany, Georgia and Turner AFB, George went to UCLA; where,in Sept. 1947, he got his MA in meteorology and was assigned to McDill AFB. In November 1947, he entered the Weather Officers' Equipment Engineering Course. In November 1948 he was assigned at Andrews Air Force Base to Hq. AWS and worked there directly under Dr. Sverre Petterssen as Chief of Meteorological Equipment Development. In June 1952, he was assigned to the Air Research and Development Command (later, the Air Force Systems Command) at Baltimore, Maryland as Chief of Meteorological Equipment Development, where he worked for Col Ben Holzman, under B/Gen Don Yates. In June 1957, George was assigned to the Geophysical Research Directorate at Bedford, Massachusettss as the 433L Program Manager. In October 1958, he was assigned to the Electronics Systems Division when it was established, continuing as the 433L Director. In 1959 433L was expanded as a joint program for the Department of Defense and the U.S. Weather Bureau. Until then, it was the largest Federally funded program. In August 1962, George graduated from ICAF, the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, earning also his second MA degree, from George Washington U. He ended his military career as the program manager for the Air Force Tactical Command and Control System at ESD, the Electronics Systems Division of AFSC. After retirement from USAF, he worked the next 15 years for the Ground Systems Division of Hughes Aircraft Company, in Program Planning and Systems Administration. He retired, finally, in 1991. He settled in Solana Beach, near La Jolla, California. There he became a volunteer finance manager and computer guru for Park Del Mar and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Dieguito.

Buried

San Diego, CA, USA 26 February 2007 Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery San Diego San Diego County California, USA Plot: SECTION CBI ROW 2 SITE 568

Other

Graduated

Memphis, TN, USA Bachelor of Science Memphis State University
Memphis, TN, USA 3557 Watauge Street

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / SO#90, 11Dec43., http://www.b24.net/support/gnames.html