Round shaped, brass colored coin, 2 inches in diameter. Click to enlarge
Unit/Organization Information
  • 8th Air Force Museum
Location
Coin Location: 7G2 X
Homebase: Pooler, Georgia
Additional Information
Date Acquired: 24 March 2011
Donated by: Nathan Disney
Copies: 1 of 1

C002626

Location: 7G2 X

Coin: Organization

Civilian

Narrative

Round shaped, brass colored coin, 2 inches in diameter.

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Journal - Page 66 - Line 7 Received from pilot of World Airlines

On January 28, 1942, fifty-three days after the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor, the 8th Air Force was officially activated in the National Guard Armory on Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia.

In 1983, Major General Lewis E. Lyle, USAF Retired, a B-17 veteran of 70 combat missions during World War II, and with the help of other veterans, began planning a museum. The Museum would honor the men and women who helped defeat Nazi aggression by serving in or supporting the greatest air armada the world had ever seen, the 8th Air Force. These individuals pledged themselves to honor the courage and commitment of more than 350,000 members of the 8th Air Force. Of this number, 26,000 were killed in action and 28,000 became prisoners of war during World War II.