Apr 28, 2023 | Artifact - WW II
Eight months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, American forces engaged in the first major amphibious invasion of World War II, attacking the Japanese-occupied island of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific Ocean on August 7, 1942. Air, sea, and ground combat with the...
Apr 28, 2023 | Artifact - WW II
Attached to the US Army Air Forces, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) was a women’s pilot organization during World War II. Members of the WASP were the first women to fly American military aircraft. The female pilots flew noncombat stateside missions,...
Apr 28, 2023 | Artifact - Vietnam War
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. Collins, III, of Utica, Mississippi, served in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. While flying a combat mission on October 18, 1965, his F-4C Phantom II fighter-bomber was hit by ground fire over North Vietnam. Forced to eject at low...
Apr 28, 2023 | Artifact - WW I
Private James W. Anding (1896-1976), of Martinsville, Mississippi, served with the newly formed Tank Corps during World War I. His assignments included the 331st Tank Battalion and 306th Tank Brigade, which saw service in France during the final months of the war. He...
Apr 28, 2023 | Artifact - WW II
Brookhaven, Mississippi, native Rodolph “Rudy” Case (1920-1979) served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II with the 409th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force, as a pilot and aircraft commander. Case was shot...
