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Sunday afternoon the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum hosted a Q&A panel with four WWII vets. ... a pilot with the 100th Bomb Group, which the Apple TV + Series ... New Apple TV series highlights ...
The Army Air Forces also employed two composite groups with their own TO&Es: the 28th Bomb Group (15 B-24 and 30 B-25), and the 509th Composite Group (15 B-29 and 5 C-54). 19 heavy groups and one light bomb group were to be converted to very heavy groups for duty against Japan, but the war ended before the plan was carried out.
Eighth Air Force is one of two active duty numbered air forces in the Air Force Global Strike Command. Eighth Air Force, with headquarters at Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, supports U.S. Strategic Command, and is designated as U.S. Strategic Command's Task Force 204, providing on-alert, combat-ready forces to the president.
Second Air Force, 1 November 1943; Eighth Air Force, 1 January 1944 [1] 93d Combat Bombardment Wing, c. 17 April 1944 [1] 13th Combat Bombardment Wing (later 13th Bombardment Wing), c. March–c. 12 August 1945 [10] Second Air Force, 12–28 August 1945; Air Mobility Command to activate or inactivate as needed, 12 June 2002 [8]
National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force broke ground on a 20,000-square-foot expansion to allow for more exhibits, classrooms and gallery space.
It was initially based at Barksdale Field, but moved to Army Air Base Savannah on 6 October. [9] He was the assistant operations officer of the 3d Bombardment Group, with the rank of major from 15 March 1941. On 1 September 1941, he became the assistant G-3 (operations officer) at GHQ Air Force at Bolling Field in Washington, DC.
Masters of the Air tells the story of the young men who served in the 100th Bomb Group within the U.S. Eighth Air Force (aka the “Bloody Hundredth”), during World War II, and how they played ...
The 305th Bomb Group bombed the navy yards at Wilhelmshaven on 27 January 1943 when heavy bombers of Eighth Air Force made their first penetration into Germany. Through mid-1943, the group attacked strategic targets such as submarine pens, docks, harbors, shipyards, motor works, and marshaling yards in France, Germany, and the Low Countries .