MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER Sgt. Leonard Funk, a member of the 508th, won the nation's highest honor for his courageous action. | 508th MEMORIAL Erected by the 508th P.I.R. Association on the 43rd anniversary of the formation of the unit. This stone is one of many in the museum garden commemorating various units that trained at Camp Blanding. | BASE OF 508th MEMORIAL Features the Red Devil insignia as well as the source and date of the commemoration. |
C-47 (AKA SKYTRAIN & GOONEY- BIRD in the U.S., but DAKOTA in Europe). Hundreds of these workhorse aircraft flew 508th and other parachutists into Normandy. Each carried a dozen or more men along with equipment to be dropped. | NOSE ART The "Sunshine Express - 508th P.I.R" honors all the Red Devils who jumped into the fray in European campaigns. Miss Sunshine holds an orange, symbolic of the unit's Florida origins (a word play on "Florida Oranges"?).. | MISSION TALLY The "Sunshine Express - 508th P.I.R" artwork documents this "Skytrain" flew 14 missions, some as parachutist drops and others as a glider tug. |