Chatham County, GA, July 2025 – The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force is pleased to announce that it has been recognized in Tripadvisor’s® Travelers’ Choice® Awards for 2025. The…
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At age 22, 2Lt. Milton Leonard Hymes, Jr., the navigator aboard a B-24J Liberator heavy bomber, took off from an airbase in Norfolk, England, on an ill-fated mission deep into Nazi occupied…
A precession of honor for 2Lt. Milton Leonard Hymes, Jr., as family and community members gathered to finally lay his body to rest. The Savannah native, who went missing during a bombing…
A World War II airman once missing in action was laid to rest Friday almost 80 years after his death. 2nd Lieutenant Milton Hymes Jr. is a young airman who vanished in…
Fallen WWII airmen went unaccounted for 80 years. His remains returned home to Savannah Friday | SMN
One fact Milton Gay knew about his “Uncle Milton” was that he died in World War II. The uncle, 2nd Lt. Milton Hymes Jr., went missing in action in a plane crash…
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