[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 111 (Friday, June 27, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H3024]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     RECOGNIZING THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE MIGHTY EIGHTH AIR FORCE

  (Mr. CARTER of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize one of 
our Nation's greatest World War II museums, the National Museum of the 
Mighty Eighth Air Force.
  The museum, located just outside of Savannah in Pooler, Georgia, 
received a preserved B-24 Liberator from the National Museum of the 
U.S. Air Force at Barksdale Air Force Base.
  The aircraft is one of the three remaining B-24 relics from World War 
II, originally named Rupert the Roo II.
  Rupert will undergo a brief restoration process and will join a B-17 
Flying Fortress to become the newest centerpiece of the museum.
  These two machines represent the complete collection of the aircraft 
flown by the Mighty Eighth throughout the Second World War in both the 
European and Pacific theaters.
  Mr. Speaker, I thank the Barksdale Air Force Base for reallocation 
and preservation of these historic planes. Efforts like these allow the 
National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force to fully educate the 
public on the Nation's most storied Air Force division ever known.

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