Step into history at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force's immersive "Bombardier School," October 14–15, 2025.

POOLER, Ga. (WTOC) - The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force needs your help to honor the heroes who gave their lives during World War II. The museum is hosting it’s fifth annual “Flags for ...

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 ...

From there, his kill tally rose in twos and threes. On July 5, 1944, he stood atop the victory list in Europe with 28 kills, ...

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 ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Thousands of flags are now spread across the grass outside the Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force. That, after hundreds of volunteers helped out with the pre-Memorial Day set ...

POOLER, Gerogia (WJCL) — Tuesday, January 28th is a historic day for both Savannah and the United States. Eighty-three years ago, January 28, 1942, the charter for the Eighth Air Force was created in ...

One of the early missions of the U.S. 8th Air Force in World War II produced an astonishing and unexpected outcome. During a bombing run, a group of American bombers mistakenly dropped their payload ...

ELSMERE, Delaware (WPVI) -- We want to wish a very special 100th birthday to a local hero. Raymond Firmani of Elsmere, Delaware, was a B-17 pilot in the 486th Heavy Bombardment Group in World War II, ...

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 ...

The 431st Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron will be a tenant unit of the 8th Fighter Wing based at Kunsan Air Base in ...