We are currently looking for written stories about ground maintenance, medical, administration, and aircrew, relating to airlift and air refueling. If you have a story you'd like to share or have any questions, please contact the museum.
amcmuseum@us.af.mil
The museum is also seeking personal accounts for our Airlift Oral History Project.
Your interview with our oral historian will be video taped and added below. You will also receive a DVD of your interview.
If you are interested in having your memories preserved for future generations, just email us to become a part of this important project.
= Written History 
= Oral History (YouTube)
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Rocket Test Program, Hangar 1301
In 1944, an accelerated rocket development program with the creation of the base unit and experimental rocket station at Dover AFB was established.
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The Mole hole, Building 1303
Building 1303 at Dover AFB is an example of the smallest version of the "mole hole", and was constructed for the readiness crews of the KC-97s.
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Video Interview with Don Clark
Don Clark was a C-47 pilot during World War II. He gives an account of some of his experiences during that time.
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Operation Market Garden—a diary
By TSgt. Winfield E. (Bing) Wood
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A Very Special Report from Operation Husky
By George C. Merz, Lt Col. USAF (Ret) as told to Lewis E. Johnston, 1st Lt AUS (Ret)
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The Great Underground Escape
By George C. Merz, Lt Col. USAF (Ret) as told to Lewis E. Johnston, 1st Lt AUS (Ret)
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61st Troop Carrier Squadron
By Tony Cicippio, TSSgt. USAF (Ret) 61st Troop Carrier Squadron, WWII
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Daily Chronicles of a USAAF Unit in England for the Invasion of Europe
By Col. Joseph Harkiewicz, digested from the book We Are The 29th Troop Carrier Squadron.
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Troop Carrier D-Day Flights
Compiled by Lewis E. Johnston, 1st Lt AUS (Ret)
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The Three-One-Five Group, and the Troop Carrier D-Day Flights
By Bill Brinson
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IX Troop Carrier Command's Finest and Final Effort
By George "Pete" Buckley
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Silent Wings of History
Article by: Captain. Carie A. Seydel, Airmen Magazine
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James Di Pietro, Glider Pilot
Introduction by Deborah J. Sellars, article written by James Di Pietro
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There are no stories at this time. We are looking for first person accounts of actual events for possible inclusion in this section.
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The Congo Airlift
... Many flight legs were more than 1,500 miles long. Maps initially supplied to the aircrews showed mountains where there were no mountains and marked others in the wrong places. ...
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Abandoning the Congo
... In 1963 the UN, giving up on what it correctly perceived to be a bad job, decided to remove all of its foreign peace keepers from the former Belgian Congo. ...
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Operation Nickel Grass
... Just as the United States was ending it massive involvement in Vietnam and reducing its force structure, the Military Airlift Command (MAC) was called upon to conduct a major wartime airlift in support of Israel. ...
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Project Fire
... a C-124 crew from the 15th Air Transport Squadron, stationed at Dover AFB, would be a major player in supporting this program. ...
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Peruvian Earthquake
In the late afternoon of May 31,1970, an earthquake registering 7.75 on the Richter scale struck west of Peru ...
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Operation Helping Hand
At 5:36 p.m. on Good Friday, March 27, 1964, the twentieth century's most intensive earthquake to hit North America struck South Central Alaska ...
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Major Bernard F. "Bernie" Fisher
The first to be awarded the Air Force Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Vietnam War.
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Sergeant James P. Connor
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, his medal dates from an invasion in southern France on the beach of Cavalaire.
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Airman 1st Class John L. Levitow
Is the lowest ranking Air Force member ever to receive the Medal of Honor.
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Lieutenant Colonel Joe Jackson
"There wasn't any question about it. There wasn't any decision to make. Of course he and his crew would attempt the rescue."
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Major George E. Day
"By withholding information, despite the cost of personal suffering, he sought to protect fellow airmen who were still flying missions against the northern strongholds of the enemy."
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Captain Gerald O. Young
"He would help the only way he could, by leading the enemy away from the crash site to take the pressure off the rescue force."