Lieutenant Jack A. Sims

Jack A. Sims was the son of Nelson I. Sims and Dorothy Sims. His first wife's name was Frances, nicknamed Gabby, who he married on 6th july 1942. Major John Hilger was his best man. The couple had 3 children but in 1954 they divorced. 

He remarried during 1964, his second wife named Lee Adams (see picture below). They met each other in Washington DC . The couple had one daughter.

Jack A. Sims had two sisters. Mary and Margaret Sims.

The Sims papers - a Doollittle Raid journal written by Jack A. Sims is on the site : - click here -

Lieutenant Jack A. Sims was inducted into the Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame on 11 October 2003. Location of the hall @ the Air Zoo - Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum in Portage, Michigan. 

On one of the pictures below  you see the Doolittle raiders: Lt James Macia, Lt Jack Sims, Sgt Jacob Eierman, and Major John Hilger in China, 20 April 1942.  Jack A. Sims is the second American from left. Two days before the crew bailed out above China. 

After bombing targets in Japan, the crew flew to China. When their aircraft ran out of fuel, crew member Edwin Bain, gunner, became separated from the crew and was reported missing. Nevertheless, after two days Edwin Bain reunited with his crew in a friendly Chinese village. That's why he is not in the picture of Crew 14 in China/ (picture 4 below)

Also on a picture below, items worn or carried by Lt. Jack A. Sims during the Doolittle Tokyo Raid. These items were on display in the World War II Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dauton Ohio. Copyright picture - U.S. Air Force.

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