8th Air Force WWII Patch F-4 Phantom Death Rattlers

Death Rattlers

conducting forward air control

maintaining the Purple Fox identity through every transition

continuing the distinguished lineage of HMM-163 Evil Eyes in the tiltrotor era

morale walls

8th Air Force WWII Patch F-4 Phantom Death Rattlers8th Air Force WWII Patch The Mighty Eighth. More combat losses than any air force in history and they kept flying. The Eighth Air Force was activated in 1942 and led the Allied strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany from bases across England. Flying B 17 Flying Fortresses and B 24 Liberators in daylight precision bombing raids deep into enemy territory, the Eighth suffered over 47,000 casualties including more than 26,000 killed in action the