Getty Images P-51D Mustang of the 8th Air Force over England, 1940s. The U.S. entered World War II in December 1941 considerably better off than it was in 1917. The U.S. defense industry had already been producing aircraft for Allied combatants since before the war, and an established...
West of Peterborough, along the Great North Road in Cambridgeshire, the first purpose-built prisoner of war camp was constructed near the hamlet of Norman Cross in 1796. Designed to hold prisoners from the French Revolutionary Wars, and later Napoleonic Wars, Norman Cross Depot averaged interring ...
On September 8, 1975, Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich, a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, appears on the cover of Time magazine above the headline “I AM A HOMOSEXUAL,” challenging the ban against homosexuals in the U.S. military. A month and
Warren D. Tessmer, a Wausau, Wisconsin native, describes his Air Force service with the 8th AirForce during World War II and the 343rd Bombardment Squadron during the Korean War. Tessmer speaks of getting his parents' permission to enlist during high school in 1942, basic training at Fort ...
The Second Generation. 1946 DENNIS R. SCANLAN Jr. Dennis R .Scanlan, Jr., joined his father upon his return from England after serving with the 8th Air Force during World War II. Working with surgeons pioneering cardiac, vascular and solid organ transplantation, he changed the designs of surg...
Did you know when the original gun was cut up for WW2 scrap metal use? TampaPix has the answer and presents the circumstances of that sacrifice. Do you know when the current gun arrived and more importantly, where it came from? The commonly accepted answer is that it came from Fort Morga...
1,500 bombers of the US 8th Air Force, including the 306th Bomb Group flying from RAF Thurleigh, attacked Berlin, Germany.n [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | RAF Thurleigh | Berlin | TH] Hawaii USS Guitarro departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her first war...
— 8th Airforce News Magazine “… a well crafted and poignant wartime love story.” — P-47 Thunderbolt Pilots Association The Best of Times: A Novel of Love and War (2004) Set in England during the last four months of 1943, The Best of Times recounts the combat experiences of Lt....
German submarine U-682, a Type VII-C submarine, was destroyed in an air raid by bombers of US 8th Air Force at 0115 hours at the Howaldswerke Yard in Hamburg, Germany. [Hamburg | HM] H. C. Stülcken Sohn shipyard in Hamburg, Germany was heavily damaged by Allied bombing. [Bombing...
Pocklington History is a website devoted to the history of an old market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire.