For a quick history lesson: the VIII Bomber Command (renamed "The Eighth Air Force" toward the end of the war), was established in Georgia, immediately after Harbor. Its task was to defeat the ...

During World War II, the now-legendary VIII Bomber Command (often referred to as the Eighth Air Force) served as the principal American force assembled to attack Germany from the air. For several ...

to take pictures of the VIII Bomber Command, commonly known as the Eighth Air Force or The Mighty 8th. The photographs, executed in brilliant hues that make them look almost like oil paintings ...

Within weeks of the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America’s official entry into the Second World War, Allied forces in Europe activated the now-legendary VIII Bomber Command (often ...

On January 19, 1942, shortly after the United States entered the Second World War, the VIII Bomber Command came to be at Langley Field, Virginia. The unit is now known as the Eighth Air Force ...

Shortly after the 1942 deployment of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain, LIFE Magazine sent Margaret Bourke-White to spend time with the now legendary VIII Bomber Command. During her assignment ...

The Eighth Air Force traces its lineage to the VIII Bomber Command, which was activated on Feb. 1, 1942, at Langley Field, Virginia, as part of the expansion of the U.S. Army Air Force ...

Eighth Air Force was first activated under the designation as the VIII Bomber Command on Feb, 1, 1942 at Langley Field, Virginia before being moved to England under its parent unit, 8th Air Force. In ...