- Collection:
- Mighty Eighth Air Force Collection
- Title:
- Colonel Richard E. Sims
- Date of Original:
- 1944-12
- Subject:
- United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th--Officers
United States. Army Air Forces--Uniforms
United States. Army Air Forces--Insignia
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th --History--Pictorial works
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th
United States. Air Force--History
United States. Air Force--History--World War, 1939-1945 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- photographs
black-and-white photographs - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- A photograph of Colonel Richard Sims, an ordnance officer of the United States Eighth Air Force Headquarters, seated at his desk in December 1944. On the left shoulder of his uniform is the Eighth Air Force insignia. In late April 1942, orders transferred him to Headquarters Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia to join the Advance Echelon, Eighth Air Force, which soon left for duty in England. The back of the photo includes a label that reads: No: B2144, Date:WWII, Sub:Col. Sims, Source: Sims.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/m8af_m8afc_1995-0142-3271
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/m8af_m8afc_1995-0142-3271#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/m8af_m8afc_1995-0142-3271/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 3 x 4 in. ; 2 pages
- Holding Institution:
- National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
- Rights:
-
