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Hubert E. Guyot attended Meadville Area High School.

He enlisted on 16 January 1943 in Erie, Pennsylvania.

He lived with his sister Edna Mae Amy in Meadville, Pennsylvania, prior to his enlistment. Both his parents were deceased. He was the twin-brother of Helen Guyot.

Statement from S/Sgt James V. King, Tail Gunner
"The aircraft was hit by flak over the target and then dropped back about 600 yards at first turn off the target. By the time it made it’s third turn from the target, it was about 10,000 feet below us, and directly behind us. All during that time it was being attacked continually by fighters, anywhere from four to twelve at a time. On the fourth turn from the target, aircraft #201 turned 90 degrees to our right and kept going down. More fighters hit it, then as it was in a flat glide I saw five chutes come out in orderly fashion. That is all I saw as it was cut off from my view by clouds. I saw one of the FW 190s shot down and hit the ground during the fight.
Sgt Guyot called position of two attacking ME 109s, giving instructions to me (Pilot) to pull the aircraft up as the ME 109s were both firing under the aircraft. Sgt Guyot reported that he thought he had hit one. He also gave the direction in which the enemy aircraft had taken. No other contact from Sgt Guyot was made.
Sgt Guyot had been hit on the right side of his face with a twenty millimeter, and apparently the shell had either exploded on contact or had exploded near enough to him to blow the eye and cheek away from his face. Also, his right arm and leg were filled with the German equivalent of our fifty caliber shells.
Sgt Guyot bailed out in the vicinity of Pitesti, Rumania. He was last seen in the hospital of Ploesti, Rumania by an Air Force Sgt that had been in the same hospital. Name unknown. He was in a coma for two or more days, then operated on to remove his left eye. He never recovered."