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Mississippians in the Mighty Eighth

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One hundred and one stories, written by the Mississippians who lived them: pilots and gunners, a crew chief, a flight surgeon, and the sisters, wives, and widows who carried the other half of the war. Their 1999 book is out of print and the chapter that published it has dissolved. Mississippians in the Mighty Eighth, the first project from Echoes of the Mighty Eighth, retells one story a week and brings the book itself back to print alongside it.

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Speak the Names Again 05.06.2026 2:51

In 1999, almost sixty veterans of the Mighty Eighth, the Eighth Air Force that flew the bombing war over Europe in World War II, wrote their own war. Pilots, gunners, navigators, a crew chief, a flight surgeon, and the sisters, wives, and widows who carried the other half of the story put it all into a book called Mississippians in the Mighty Eighth . Then the book went out of print, the chapter t...