Membership Incentive Drive

Annual Membership Incentive Drive

The holidays are upon us and we’re all busier than ever. So, we thought we’d try something different this year with our membership drive.

What if you could accomplish multiple tasks when renewing your AFHF membership? What if you could support our ever expanding Project Phoenix, incorporate your end of the tax year giving, and be one of the lucky few to acquire a unique gift for yourself or someone you care about?

Here’s what we’re thinking. We are offering the following items as incentives – for an added donation. Quantities are limited so it’s first come, first serve.

All proceeds go directly to defray the cost of AFHF programing and events throughout 2024. Visit our website to see the wide variety of opportunities offered by the Foundation. Thanks for your support.

Membership Incentives

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Legacy by Ronald Wong, Autographed Lithograph

A limited-edition fine art print commissioned by Paul W. Tibbets, BGen, USAF (ret). On August 6th 1945, then Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr. piloted the B-29 Enola Gay on what would be one of the most momentous nights in history. As Commander of the 509th Composite Group, Col. Tibbets organized, trained and led the hand-selected crew members that comprised the world’s first atomic bomb wing.

Today the Legacy of this famous unit lives on with the newly organized 509th Bomb Wing and today’s successor to the legendary B-29, the B-2 Spirit. It is only fitting that Gen. Tibbets¹ grandson, Captain Paul Tibbets IV (now retired Brig. Gen), continued this tradition as a mission pilot flying the B-2 Spirit assigned to the 509th Bomb Wing, Whiteman AFB, Missouri.

Edition limited to 1,000 s/n lithographs.

Overall size 20 x 28 inches.
Signed & numbered by the artist & both pilots.

Includes one annual sustaining membership (normally $50).

$325.00

The Foundation Chairman's Package

3 Sets Available.

Includes one year AFHF sustaining membership and the following books:

The Air Force (Oversized)
AFHF published this book in 2003 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of manned flight. In narrative chapters, this volume examines technological change and the people that designed it, built it, and made it work. Beginning with its Army roots, this volume is a beautiful edition to coffee tables across the country while examining the story of a developing technologically based military service.

ALSO INCLUDING WORLD WAR II and THE VIETNAM WAR CHRONOLOGIES (Oversized)

Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower
(USAF 75th Anniversary edition)
Winner of the AIAA Manuscript Award, the USAF 75th Anniversary Edition was released on 18 September 2022—the USAF’s 75th birthday. The AFHF is making a limited number of autographed collector copies available to celebrate that milestone.

The Rescue of BAT 21
Autographed Edition
When his electronic warfare plane–call sign Bat 21–was shot down on 2 April 1972, fifty-three-year-old Air Force navigator Iceal “Gene” Hambleton parachuted into the middle of a North Vietnamese invasion force and set off the biggest and most controversial air rescue effort of the Vietnam War. Now, after twenty-five years of official secrecy, the story of that dangerous and costly rescue is revealed for the first time by decorated Air Force pilot and Vietnam veteran Darrel Whitcomb

Red Markers: The Rest of the Story
Autographed Edition
In 1962, an Air Liaison Officer began supporting the Vietnamese Airborne Brigade (known as the Red Berets) and its embedded American advisors in MACV Team 162 (the Red Hats). The liaison officer took the call sign Red Marker. Over the years, the unit grew to a peak of 36 personnel with a dozen aircraft and six radio jeeps devoted to directing close air support for the Red Berets.
This book tells the history of these forward air controllers and the elite Vietnamese and American warriors on the ground. It is based on first-hand accounts of more than 100 men who were there. This is a sequel to the first history of the Red Markers published in 2012. The Rest of the Story goes well beyond that earlier work.

$295.00

The Foundation President's Package

Includes one annual AFHF sustaining membership plus the two following books:

The Air Force

AFHF published this book in 2003 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of manned flight. In narrative chapters, this volume examines technological change and the people that designed it, built it, and made it work. Beginning with its Army roots, this volume is a beautiful edition to coffee tables across the country while examining the story of a developing technologically based military service. (Oversized)

Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower

This Air Force Historical Foundation, Special Edition, was released in 2012 as part of a joint publication effort with the USAF, Air Command and Staff College located at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. This beautiful award-winning, hardbound, limited-edition volume will thrill any biography-lover on your gift list.

$125.00

Disclaimer: The Air Force Historical Foundation is a 501(c)(3) independent, non-profit, tax-exempt, publicly supported organization. We receive no government funding and thus rely on the generous support of our members, private contributions, and institutional subscriptions. These contributions assist in preserving the history of the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Space Force, and predecessor organizations. With your assistance, we can continue working to protect and communicate this rich legacy and inspire future thought and action for generations to come.