#8th air force

[majoregan]

This is Maj. Bucky Egan's original POW cards.

courtesy 100th Bomb Group Foundation.

#lowkey reminds me of dev patel #he must've been amazing #bucky egan #john egan #major john egan #masters of the air #100th bomb group #8th air force #world war 2 #mastersoftheair #callum turner #john bucky egan #major egan

[lonestarflight]

"Crew of B-17 Flying Fortress 'Tom Paine' (42-30793) prepares for a mission. When the men of an 8th Air Force Group gave the town of Thetford, England, a plaque, honoring it as the birthplace of Thomas Paine, American patriot, philosopher and author, the crew of a B-17 thought it appropriate to name their plain 'Tom Paine' and to inscribe the fuselage with one of his famous remarks, 'Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.'"

History of this B-17: "Delivered Cheyenne 29/7/43; Dyersburg 8/8/43; Assigned: 562BS/388BG Knettishall 3/9/43; crashed Ellough, Nfk, on return from a mission Pilot: Bob McWhite; Salvaged. 11/4/44. TOM PAINE."

-information from b17flyingfortress.de: link

Photo was received on October 4, 1945.

(U.S. Air Force Number K3973)

NARA: 205002341

#Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress #B-17 #bomber #8th Air Force #World War II #World War 2 #WWII #WW2 #WWII in Color #WWII History #History #October #1945 #United States Air Force #U.S. Air Force #US Air Force #USAF #United States Army Air Corps #US Army Air Corps #Army Air Corps #Air Corps #USAAC #my post

[nocternalrandomness]

F-5 Lightning Photo Recon aircraft - 1945

F-5A Lightning serial number 42-13289 nicknamed "Zola". 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, Eighth Air Force, based at Mt. Farm in Oxfordshire, England.

#USAAF #8th Air Force #F5 #Lightning #Photo recon #reconnaissance #aircraft #airplane #WW2 #Vintage photo #aviation #P-38

[major-mads]

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A Pair of Silver Wings Series Masterlist

Places of Interest:

Thorpe Abbotts Airbase

Dulag Luft

Pilots:

Major Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal: part 1 | part 2

Major John 'Bucky' Egan

Teaser Trailer: Close Ups

Teaser Trailer: Long Shots

Teaser Trailer: Egan & Cleven

Official Trailer: Gale & Marge

Opening Titles: Cleven

Opening Titles: Egan

Opening Titles: Rosenthal

Opening Titles: Group Shots

Egan, Cleven, & Rosenthal Icons

Major John Egan Icons

100th Bombardment Group Icons

Tuskegee Airmen Icons

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[thatsrightice]

The Army General Classification Test (AGTC) was a 40-minute, 150 multiple choice question comprehensive test used in WWII to evaluate verbal, quantitative, and spatial abilities of recruits. The Army used this exam to divide up men into one of five categories based on their raw scores:

Class 1: 130+

Class 2: 110-129

Class 3: 90-109

Class 4: 70-89

Class 5: 69 or lower

Though intended to measure one’s intelligence, the test seemed to be more of a measure of education. Regardless, it was still a reasonable way of measuring a recruit’s ability level.

The Army Air Corps received a very high number of men who scored in Classes 1 and 2. In 1942 and 1943, approximately 44% of men in the AAC scored in Class 1 or Class 2, with an additional 35% scoring in Class 3. But it’s important to remember that the Army Air Corps ONLY accepted volunteers. Of course, there’s more intensive training and exams that recruits must pass in order to become a Pilot, Copilot, Navigator, or Bombardier, but scoring high was an important first step.

#I just know Crosby scored the highest of our flyboys and I REFUSE to believe anything else #everyone’s at Thorpe Abbotts boasting about their scores and he doesn’t immediately offer his up #but then someone asks and he’s like uhhhh but bubbles is like ‘he got a 129’ #then Crosby complains about how the wording on the question was ambiguous #mota #masters of the air #wwii #8th air force #100th bomb group #agct exam #agct #Army General Classification Test #army air corps

[usafphantom2]

Heidi Ho, B-17 41-9017 flew on Mission 1, Aug 17, 1942 targeting rail in Rouen/Sotteville, France. It would later sustain damage in an explosion. #WWII

@Francesbekafigo via C

#8th air force #b 17 flying fortress #ww2

[mads-nixon]

100th Bomb Group Info

I was doing some research and found the AMAZING 100th Bombardment Group Foundation website which has a database where you can look up airmen, planes, crews, missions, and just about anything having to do with the 100th. It's really an awesome resource!

You can access the database here!!

#masters of the air #100th bombardment group #100th bomb group #13th combat wing #8th air force #mighty eighth air force #mighty eighth #bloody hundredth #hbowar #mota #masters of the air research #ww2 research #research #100th bomb group foundation #100th bomb group database

[casposters]

(via Clash over the Ore | Gareth Hector Milita)

#WW2 #b-17 flying fortress #USAAF #ETO #8th Air Force #100th Bomb Group #Aviation #Luftwaffe #FW190 #p-51 mustang

[claireelizabeth85]

History hit - 100th BG - Black Week and Black Thursday

Black week was the week 4th - 10th October 1943 (which includes the missions over Bremen on 8th and Münster on 10th) and the 8th Airforce lost 90 aircraft in the week prior to the second Schweinfurt mission.

The first mission to Schweinfurt was in the August (part of the twin prong attack with the Regensburg mission).

#youtube #masters of the air #8th air force #100th bomb group #john egan #gale cleven #john brady #major harry crosby #mota #Claire’s history snippets

[sansreproache]

6 profile views of 3 different P-47 Thunderbolt bubble canopy models (top to bottom); 3×P-47D-25/30; 2×P-47M (ultimate ETO model); 1×P-47N (ultimate PTO model)

#p 47 thunderbolt #jug #usaaf #usaac #8th air force #9th air force #20th air force #ww2 fighter #ww2 aircraft #ww2 history #ww2 aviation #ww2 planes #aircraft prints #aviation art #P-47 #thunderbolt

[markloveshistory]

Gen. Carl Spaatz dies

View On WordPress

#8th air force #Air Force #Carl Spaatz #England #History #mark loves history #this date in history #This Day in History #today in history #USAAF #USAF #WWII

[lonestarflight]

Crew of the 379th Bomb Group poses beside their Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress "Fatso" at an 8th Air Force Base in England, on February 27, 1944.

NARA: 204875989

#Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress #B-17 #Bomber #Boeing B-17 #B-17 Flying Fortress #February #1944 #8th Air Force #England #World War II #World War 2 #WWII #WW2 #WWII History #History #Military History #United States Army Air Corps #US Army Air Corps #Army Air Corps #Air Corps #USAAC #my post

[gingerwerk]

He’s baby your honor

#this is a Harry Crosby stan account!!!! 😤😤😤 #‘Harry Crosby! greatest navigator in the 8th Air Force!’ #Kelly watches Mota

[major-mads]

Thorpe Abbotts Airbase

Places of Interest in Masters of the Air

Masterlist

The Thorpe Abbotts Airbase/Airfield is located just outside of the village of Thorpe Abbots in Norfolk, England. It was specifically built for the 100th Bomb Group when they came to join the war effort. Flyers with the 100th were set to start arriving in June of 1943, so the engineers and builders had to even out the ground, lay miles and miles of concrete, and build the intricate roads and buildings of the base very quickly.

Many locals did not support the building of the base because it encroached on their farmlands. While the British were happy the Americans were joining the fight, there were definite feelings of animosity towards the 'yanks' (as they call Americans), but most of those faded when the Brits met the airmen who occupied the base.

Donald Miller: Masters of the Air, pgs. 1-2

"Thorpe Abbotts, an American bomber base some ninety miles north of London and a short stroll from the Norfolk hamlet that gave it its name. Station # 139, as it was officially designated, with its 3,500 fliers and support personnel, was built on a nobleman's estate lands, and the crews flew to war over furrowed fields worked by Sir Rupert Mann's tenant farmers, who lived nearby in crumbling stone cottages heated by open hearths. Thorpe Abbotts is in East Anglia, a history-haunted region of ancient farms, curving rivers, and low flat marshland. It stretches northward from the spires of Cambridge, to the high-sitting cathedral town of Norwich, and eastward to Great Yarmouth, an industrial port on the black waters of the North Sea. With its drainage ditches, wooden windmills, and sweeping fens, this low-lying slice of England brings to mind nearby Holland, just across the water. It is a haunch of land that sticks out into the sea, pointed, in the war years, like a raised hatchet at the enemy. And its drained fields made good airbases from which to strike deep into the German Reich. A century or so behind London in its pace and personality, it had been transformed by the war into one of the great battlefronts of the world, a war front unlike any other in history (Miller, 2007, pgs. 1-2)."

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#thorpe abbotts #gale cleven #john egan #masters of the air #gale buck cleven #major buck cleven #major john egan #rosie rosenthal #1940s #8th air force #mota #road to masters of the air #about masters of the air #hbo war #thorpe abbotts air base #100th bombardment group #100th bomb group #bloody hundredth #bloody hundredth bomb group

[thatsrightice]

“We were more afraid of [LeMay] than Hitler.”

— Gale “Buck” Cleven

#damn. #SOURCE: Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller #gale buck cleven #gale cleven #buck cleven #masters of the air #mota #real mota #colonel LeMay #Curtis LeMay #aviation #8th air force #bloody hundreth #100th bomb group #quote #quotes #I listen to the audiobook so I don’t have the page number sorry :(

[usafphantom2]

Heidi Ho, B-17 41-9017 flew on Mission 1, Aug 17, 1942 targeting rail in Rouen/Sotteville, France. It would later sustain damage in an explosion. #WWII

@Francesbekafigo via X

#b 17 flying fortress #usaaf #8th air force #ww2 #bomber