On October 8, 1943 John "Lucky" Luckadoo was on his 22nd mission with the 100th bombardment group, or the Bloody Hundredth, in the Eighth Air Force during World War II. Usually, on the later ...
The bombing raid on 17 August 1943 saw the Eighth Air Force attempt a double strike against two German targets in what is now referred to as the Regensburg-Schweinfurt raid. Airmen had hoped the ...
The B-24 Liberator was the most produced US aircraft of World War II and vital to the Allied victory. Designed for high-altitude precision bombing, the B-24s of the US Army's Eighth Air Force ...
Without question, one of the most powerful instruments employed by the United States and her Allies to achieve total victory in World War II was the U.S. Eighth Air Force. It ... The legislation ...