Pooler in Chatham County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)
385th Bombardment Group (H)
Great Ashfield Station 155
Activated
Feb 1943
297 Missions
2 Unit Citations
Regensburg
&
Zwickau
Aircraft Lost: 129
Lives Lost: 409
Deactivated
Aug 1945
Combat Units
HQ Squadron
548th Bomb Sqdn
549th Bomb Sqdn
550th Bomb Sqdn
551st Bomb Sqdn
Support Units
424th Air Serv Grp
877th Chem Co.
Det . 155, 18th AWS
To Our Fallen Comrades Who Have Given Their Last Full
Measure Of Devotion In A Sacred Cause.
"I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God."
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II.
Location. 32° 6.956′ N, 81° 14.204′ W. Marker is in Pooler, Georgia, in Chatham County. Memorial is on 175 Bourne Avenue. Located adjacent to I-95, Georgia exit 102, (US 80 east), at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Pooler GA 31322, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. 398th Bombardment Group (Heavy) (here, next to this marker); 489th Bomb Group (a few steps from this marker); 491st Bombardment Group (H) (a few steps from this marker); 351st Bombardment Group (Heavy) (a few steps from this marker); 466th Bomb Group (H) (a few steps from this marker); B/G John S. Allard (within shouting distance of this marker); Staff Sergeant Oliver H. Lester “Bud” (within shouting distance of this marker); 379th Bombardment Group (H) (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Pooler.
Additional commentary.
1. High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
— Submitted April 14, 2013, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
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