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 ...
With fire streaming from his engine and the right wing half enveloped in flames, Lindsey led the formation to drop their ...
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 ...
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 ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - A special day at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Pooler. This was Captain Dick Nelms’ first visit to the World War Two museum dedicated to the unit he was ...
POOLER, Ga. (WTOC) - The Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum held their annual “ringing of the bell” ceremony Monday. WTOC talked to one active duty air force member about why visiting the museum Monday ...