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Mississippians in the Mighty Eighth
by Plume & Parchment
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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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 that published it dissolved, and the stories went quiet.We're bringing them back. The book returns to print, and its stories return as a weekly podcast: seven seasons, twelve episodes a season, every one built from the words these men and women left behind. Each week you get one story, the lesson they paid dearly to learn, and the thread that runs from their world straight into yours.Mississippians in the Mighty Eighth is the first project from Echoes of the Mighty Eighth. Written, published, and distributed by Plume & Parchment, the heritage imprint of The Curated Quill.For more information, and to support the project, visit 8af.echoes.news/mississippi.Follow the show, and Season One will find you.
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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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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...
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