Fifth Fighter Squadron

Fifty Second Fighter Group

106 Aerial Victories Flying

British Spitfires & P-51 Mustangs

Europe • Africa • Mediterranean Theaters

1942 - 1945

Two Distinguished Unit Citations

Twelve Battle Honors

Dedicated 1987 in memory of all

“Spitten Kittens”

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Confederate Dead

Here rest 34 Confederate soldiers, all of whom died in the Confederate hospitals located in Thomaston. These men came from seven of the Confederate states. Only six are “unknown” graves. Hospitals located here were the Newsom, Frank Ramsey and several ...

Donaldson Air Force Base / Captain John O. Donaldson

Donaldson Air Force Base

Greenville Army Air Base opened on this site in 1942 and trained B-25 bomber crews during World War II. Emphasizing air transport after 1945 and renamed Donaldson Air Force Base in 1951. It was the home ...

Danville (Illinois) National Cemetery

War Memorial

In memory of the men who offered their lives in defense of their Country.

Marker can be reached from Blue Star Highway south of Main Street (Route 136).

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Metropolitan Saloon and Bowling Alley

Site of

At this site was one of California’s first bowling alleys. It was actually three buildings, with single-lane bowling alleys in each of the side buildings. The establishment, also known as the Metropolitan Saloon and Sporting Hall, featured gambling and ...

Merced Assembly Center

This was one of 15 temporary detention camps established during World War II to incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry, a majority of whom were American citizens, without specific charges or trial. From May to September 1942, 4669 residents of Northern ...

Osceola "Soo" Depot

This depot was built in 1916 replacing a smaller wooden structure that was destroyed when two engines collided in front of it. Constructed of red, wire cut brick with white sandstone trim, the depot was very modern for its time, ...

Cheatham Road

Wyatt Cheatham (1769-1856) was one of the early settlers of Lawrence County and bought land near Wren in 1818. The Alabama Legislature on 14 Dec 1824 authorized him, "to open out and make a road leading from at or near ...

Martin Johnson Heade

1819 - 1904

Noted artist and co-founder of the "luminist" style of landscape painting. Also known for his humingbird studies and floral still lifes. He first studied with Edward and Thomas Hicks in Newtown. Born and raised here; family owned ...

352nd Fighter Group

P-47 and P-51

In memory of the

“Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney”

352nd Fighter Group

328th • 486th • 487th • Hdqs Sqdns

1st Service Group

Hqs Sq • 1104th QM Co • 1066th Sig Co

17th Serv Sq • 1141st MP Co •

1772nd Ord Co •

22nd ...