Ever since we started traveling this wonderful country of ours, a trip to the National Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio had been on our bucket list. When we did go there, it was everything we expected, and more! The Air Force Museum houses what must be one of the […]
We have visited a lot of museums around the country that honor our nation’s veterans, from the huge National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, to the Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker, Alabama, the West Point Museum in New York, and many more too numerous to list […]
He was a small town farm boy who made good, a hero in a time when America still revered her heroes, and long after he died serving his country, Richard I. Bong’s legacy lives on. The oldest of nine children born to a Swedish immigrant father and American-born mother, Dick Bong’s upbringing reflected the values […]
For years I’ve heard about the National Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, and it has been on our bucket list. Yesterday, we got to cross it off. We rode into Dayton with Greg and Jan and stopped at the Wright Brothers bicycle shop and museum, which are part of […]