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The 100th Bomb Group was stationed out of station 139, Thorpe Abbots England during WWII. The link to the left will take you to Thorpe Abbots via Google Earth. The 100th Bomb Group was formed on June 1st, 1942 and was comprised of 4 squadrons, the 349th, 350th, 351st, and 418th respectively. After a comprehensive training program they entered combat June 25th 1943. From that first mission to the final mission in April of 1945 the 100th Bomb Group flew 306 sorties, filed 184 Missing aircrew reports, dropped over 19 tons of bombs, and lost 229 aircraft. The most sobering numbers, 768 men were KIA, and 939 were POWs.
Today, the 100th Bomb Group is memorialized through many Internet sites, such as 100thbg.com and a very active Facebook presence. The 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum maintains the control tower and small museum at Thorpe Abbots proper. You can still walk some of the taxi ways and stand on the roof of the control tower...it is a moving experience to stand where this history took place.
