Driving rain fell with the ferocity of machinegun fire while thunder bombarded the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force's rotunda as if it were distant air strike's. Yet, the elements could ...
On Jan. 28, 1942, The U.S. Army Air Corps assigned seven men to the newly formed 8 th Air Force in Savannah, Georgia. At the time, the prospective pilots did not even have a plane, but before the end ...
On October 8, 1943 John "Lucky" Luckadoo was on his 22nd mission with the 100th bombardment group, or the Bloody Hundredth, in the Eighth Air Force during World War II. Usually, on the later missions ...
POOLER, Ga. (WTOC) - It’s a day nearly a century in the making. “It’s been a big thrill to be here. I’ve been wanting to for some time,” said Richard ‘Dick’ Nelms Thursday. 99-year-old Nelms finally ...
Discover the untold story of WWII assembly ships-vividly painted B-17s and B-24s that guided bomber formations, saved lives, ...
As the years roll on, things change. We begin to develop more wrinkles and aches, new technologies emerge, our priorities change and, inevitably, the world keeps turning. Through all of the ups and ...
The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force 3rd annual Flags for the Fallen honors the 26,000 airmen lost during WWII.
Denton, Tc.: University of North Texas Press, 2024. Pp. xx, 348+. Illus., maps, notes, biblio., index. $34.95. ISBN: 1574419277 This is not an operational history of ...
SAVANNAH — Historical markers dot Georgia’s nearly 300-year-old first city like Spanish moss does the limbs of Savannah’s ubiquitous live oak trees, so the plaque that fronts American Legion Post 135 ...
Sculptor Benjamin Victor from Boise went to Normandy and unveiled his sculptures honoring the men of the 8th Air Force during WWII. US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela in Trump administration operation ...