Side Trip

My friend Mike often writes in his amazing blog existinginbfe.blogspot.com about taking side trips on his road trips in BFE and Florida. A while back I decided that I had driven past a sign on Interstate 95 in South Carolina too many times. It was time to head off the interstate and into the real world. The highway marker was for the Tuskegee Airmen. The Walterboro Army Airfield was located at what is now the Lowcounty Regional Airport. The military base hosted the largest camouflage school in the United States, a 250 person prisoner of war camp and trained over 500 of the Tuskegee Airmen in advance combat fighter training after they graduated from the Tuskegee Army Airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama. I encourage you to take some time and read about these brave American pilots who often found the white German prisoners of war were better treated than they were. Here are some pictures of the memorial.