“Me n’ Martha”: Lt. Ellis’s A-2 Jacket By: Katherine Hill Lt. Sydney Clyde Ellis (his family called him Clyde) was born in Texas, but he sought his fortune in Illinois when he…
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For Immediate Release May 17, 2021 National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force (Pooler, GA) The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force is now open to the public…
For Immediate Release March 9, 2020 Remembering the Fallen: 26,000 Flags | One Mission Memorial Flag Garden to Open May 17 at the Mighty Eighth (Pooler, GA) Twenty-six thousand flags. One for…
Seventy five years ago on January 10, 1945 WWII 8th AF Veteran and Long Time Volunteer Sam Najarian’s plane was shot down. Sam Najarian was born in Brooklyn, New York and volunteered…
William Metzger enlisted at Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 5, 1942, and served at Camp Perry, Ohio, and Camp Young, Calif., with ordnance battalions before becoming an aviation cadet in March 1943. He trained…
