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- Florence_Air_&_Missile_Museum abstract "The Florence Air & Missile Museum was an aviation museum previously located at the entrance to the Florence Regional Airport, in Florence, South Carolina. The museum closed at the end of 1997.The airport was originally known as Florence Army Airfield, or more simply as Florence Field, a World War II U.S. Army Air Corps / U.S. Army Air Forces training field for P-39 Airacobra and P-40 Warhawk pursuit aircraft and A-20 Havoc and A-26 Invader attack aircraft. Because of its former military connection and available runways, the military was able to fly in aircraft and leave them at the museum as they were retired from service.The museum was founded by \"T.C.\" Tommy Griffin, a former USAAF officer and B-25 Mitchell navigator with Doolittle's Raiders, flying the B-25 \"The Whirling Dervish\" during the Doolittle raid on Japan during World War II. After Tokyo Raid, he served as a bomber navigator in North Africa until shot down and captured by the Germans on July 3, 1943. He remained a POW until released in April 1945. His decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters and the Chinese Army, Navy, Air Corps Medal, Class A, 1st Grade. After the war, he served as executive director of the Florence Airport.During the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, the museum built up a collection of World War II and Cold War era U.S. military aircraft and early 1950s/1960s military space hardware. The museum was located along routes once frequented by travelers between the southeastern and northeastern United States and between Florence and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, but once Interstate 95 was built, attendance declined. The museum closed in December 1997 and much of the collection transferred to the newly established Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.".
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- Florence_Air_&_Missile_Museum director "T.C. "Tommy" Griffin".
- Florence_Air_&_Missile_Museum dissolved "1997".
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