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The museum was already home to a restored Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, and with the addition of the B-24, it can tell the full story of bombers flown by the Mighty Eighth during WWII.
POOLER, Ga. -- A rare B-24 Liberator is being moved from Barksdale Air Force Base to Georgia. The aircraft, which is part of World War II aviation history, will be restored and become the ...
The B-24 will join a restored Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, completing the story of the heavy bombers flown by the Eighth during World War II. “The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force ...
Interestingly, you can visit some of the World War II plane crash sites even today. A popular crash site, holding the wreckage from a fallen B-24 Liberator Bomber, is located close to Humphreys ...
POOLER, Ga. (WSAV) — A B-24 Liberator will be added to the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum after relocation from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The aircraft is one of only three B-24s in ...
When Bill Hanchett died in 2016, his son found a bundle of letters and postcards to family that he had written while in the ...
Local World War II veteran Doug Butler recently had the opportunity to chat with a Texas-based author who penned a book about ...
1st Lt. Herbert Tennyson, whose plane was shot down over Papua New Guinea in 1944, was buried Friday morning with full military honors at Old Mission Cemetery. The 24-year-old pilot had been missing ...
RANBURNE — Ambers E. Hanson, a World War II veteran and longtime public servant, was laid to rest June 14 at the age of 102. Born in 1923 on a small farm in Cleburne County, Hanson lived a life ...
Eagle Cliff Manor resident Kenneth Baeth was the nose turret gunner in a B-24 Liberator in the South Pacific in World War II. Baeth's logbook shows details of his 40th and final mission, over Iwo ...