8th Fighter Group

Historical marker location:

1100 Spaatz Street, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio

Marker installed: 1995

5th Air Force, World War II, 1942-1945. From Australia to Okinawa.

The Ohio River, which forms the state's southern border, played a significant role in the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by African American slaves to escape to freedom in the North before the Civil War.