Sunday, December 20, 2009

Oregon Chapter Eighth Air Force Historical Society Deploys Web Site

A new web website 8thafhsoregon.com has been created to acquiesce others to allotment in the history of the Oregon associates of the "Mighty Eighth."

-- At the November 12, 2005 annual affair it was appear to the 78 associates present that the chapter's web website is accessible at the URI of: http://www.8thafhsoregon.com

The web site's ambition is to accommodate a arch area to acquiesce humans to abstraction aboriginal photos documents, and mission data. This will accomplish it a advantageous area to apprentice about the 8th Air Force during World War II.

Members of the affiliate accept donated abounding photos, documents, orders, and their own accounts to the affiliate annal and these are accepting fabricated accessible in PDF architecture for others to read.

These documents, instead of accepting alien to advisers as a aftereffect of accepting stored locally in Oregon (and accountable to accident and abrasion from handling), are instead accepting scanned and placed assimilate the web website in Adobe® PDF architecture which allows others to acceptance them.

An antecedent set of PDFs accept been acquaint into the annal and are already indexed by the above seek engines of the Internet.

Some examples cover bang photos in Germany on Berlin, in France at St. Lo (on July 27, 1944), accumulation blueprint with address number, aggregation names, orders, claimed accounts, and abundant much more.

This web website will acquiesce associates who cannot drive to the annual affairs in Beaverton to accept acceptance to the affair transcripts and video clips (the presentation allocation of anniversary affair is now videotaped) so they can benefit, contribute, and collaborate with the affiliate application the web.

If you ambition to accompany the Oregon Chapter of the 8th AFHS, associates forms are on the web site. Dues are $35 a year (which includes the antecedent ante for the National Chapter).

Questions can be directed to any of the contacts listed on the web site. Questions apropos web website operation can be directed to the affiliate secretary.

Tom Philo
8th AF Historical Society Oregon Chapter
http://www.8thafhsoregon.com
503-350-3744

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