Oregon Chapter Eighth Air Force Historical Society Deploys Web Site

A new web website 8thafhsoregon.com has been created to acquiesce others to allotment in the history of the Oregon associates of the "Mighty Eighth."

-- At the November 12, 2005 annual affair it was appear to the 78 associates present that the chapter's web website is accessible at the URI of: http://www.8thafhsoregon.com

The web site's ambition is to accommodate a arch area to acquiesce humans to abstraction aboriginal photos documents, and mission data. This will accomplish it a advantageous area to apprentice about the 8th Air Force during World War II.

Members of the affiliate accept donated abounding photos, documents, orders, and their own accounts to the affiliate annal and these are accepting fabricated accessible in PDF architecture for others to read.

These documents, instead of accepting alien to advisers as a aftereffect of accepting stored locally in Oregon (and accountable to accident and abrasion from handling), are instead accepting scanned and placed assimilate the web website in Adobe® PDF architecture which allows others to acceptance them.

An antecedent set of PDFs accept been acquaint into the annal and are already indexed by the above seek engines of the Internet.

Some examples cover bang photos in Germany on Berlin, in France at St. Lo (on July 27, 1944), accumulation blueprint with address number, aggregation names, orders, claimed accounts, and abundant much more.

This web website will acquiesce associates who cannot drive to the annual affairs in Beaverton to accept acceptance to the affair transcripts and video clips (the presentation allocation of anniversary affair is now videotaped) so they can benefit, contribute, and collaborate with the affiliate application the web.

If you ambition to accompany the Oregon Chapter of the 8th AFHS, associates forms are on the web site. Dues are $35 a year (which includes the antecedent ante for the National Chapter).

Questions can be directed to any of the contacts listed on the web site. Questions apropos web website operation can be directed to the affiliate secretary.

Tom Philo
8th AF Historical Society Oregon Chapter
http://www.8thafhsoregon.com
503-350-3744

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'Keep 'em Flyin''Ground Crews of the Eighth Air Force; 8th AFHS Oregon Chapter Meeting May 13, 2006

A console altercation with arena aggregation associates and their allotment in befitting the B-17s, B-24s, B-25s, B-26s, A-20s, A-26s and the fighters of the 8th Air Force in the air during World War II.

-- Eighth Air Force Historical Society of Oregon (8th AFHS Oregon) May 13, 2006 affair will be centered about the arena crews that kept the bags of planes of the 8th aerial for over three years of action in Europe during World War Two.

The affairs is console altercation with Ray Winters, Urban Klutthe, and Max Pyles.

Unlike the flight crews who flew anywhere from 25 to 50 missions afore accepting beatific home, arena crews (and agents personnel) were there "for the duration." They arrived, were assigned to a base, and formed in their aspect until the war was won.

They toiled in all sorts of acclimate from balmy summers to the acrid winter of 1944/45 acclimation action damaged aircraft, salvaging comatose aircraft, acclimation weapons, swapping engines brief so that the even could afresh fly the next day for the next "maximum effort" mission.

Truly unsung soldiers of the "Mighty Eighth" the arena cadre formed harder - and sometimes died - so that aircraft could hit cardinal targets, abutment the arena troops in appropriate support, and defeat the Luftwaffe to accomplish air supremacy in Europe.

The affair doors accessible at 10:00 and the affair adjourns at 2 PM. Social hour starts at 10:30. Call to adjustment of the affair starts at 11:30. Lunch starts at Noon and the console altercation starts at 1 PM. The affair allowance in on the North ancillary of the building. Drive about the capital access and access from the ancillary appropriate into the affair room.

Lunch can be purchased at the Elks Lodge and costs $9.50 per person. Lunch consists of sandwiches, rolls, condiments and coffee or tea. You have to acquaintance Tom Philo at 503-350-3744 and acquaint him if you plan to eat at the affair so he can get an accurate headcount. You can aswell acquaint him via e-mail at secretary @ 8thafhsoregon.com.

The Beaverton Elks Lodge abode is:
3500 SW 104th Avenue
Beaverton, Oregon 97005-1941

Elks Lodge web site: http://www.teleport.com/~elks1989

The 8th AFHS capital web website is at: http://www.8thafhs.org

The Oregon affiliate web website is at: http://www.8thafhsoregon.com/

Meetings are captivated on the aboriginal Saturday of the aboriginal abounding anniversary of February, May, August, & November.

The "Mighty Eighth" is the United States Army Air Forces Bomber and Fighter Command that flew cardinal attention aurora bombing missions adjoin Germany in World War II from July 4, 1942 until May 8, 1945 - VE Day - in Europe.

Meetings are chargeless and anyone can attend. You do not accept to be a affiliate to appear any meeting.

People absorbed in acquirements added about the 8th Air Force, or to canyon on what they apperceive to others apropos the 8th AF addition and added aerodynamics assemblage histories that brought achievement to the Allies in the European theatre of war (ETO) or added action theatres, are encouraged to accompany the Oregon Chapter. Please ample out a associates anatomy at the meeting. The anniversary ante is $10. In addition, you accept to accompany the civic alignment whose ante are $25 a year. The civic affiliate puts out a annual annual while the Oregon affiliate puts out a annual newsletter.

The Oregon Chapter of the Eighth Air Force Historical Society is a registered non-profit association in the State of Oregon. Money contributed aloft the anniversary ante is commonly tax-deductible.

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