“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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The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force announces the temporary closing of the museum to visitors beginning March 17 through April 12 in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Additionally, all…
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…
