The Museum of Aviation Foundation announces a new Partnership with Paralyzed Veterans of America, a national non-profit corporation, and the resulting addition of a Wheelchair and Handcycle Racing Division to the 22nd Marathon event to be held on Saturday, January …
For Tuskegee Airmen Education Day, a large crowd of JROTC students from the middle Georgia area, as well as members of the military and visitors, heard from original Tuskegee Airman William Rice and Dr. Daniel Haulman of the Air Force …
The following is some history of the airfield and some of the childhood memories he had of growing up during the war with the arrival of the Americans and the B-17 Flying Fortress. Suffolk had seen nothing like it before!
It’s easy for many in the United States to feel detached from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Unless you are a veteran, live near a military base, or have a relative, friend, coworker, or neighbor who served or is serving, then it’s possible that the wars have been little more than impersonal affairs on the other side of the planet that you saw or heard something about from time to time.
I came upon a story recently about the first United States Army Air Forces officer killed in the European Theater during World War II—Lt Col Townsend Griffiss. The story appeared in the UK Mail Online but it probably won’t show up in the U.S. except maybe up in Buffalo, New York, where he was born.