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The 100th Bomb Group of the 8th AF in the E.T.O.


100th Bombardment Group (H)
"The Bloody Hundredth"
Assigned Eighth AF: June 1943

Wing & Command Assignments

VIII BC, 4BW, 402 PCBW;  06.07.1943
VIII BC, 3BD,  13 CBW;   13.09.1943
3rd BD, 13 CBW:          08.01.1944
3rd AD, 13 CBW:          01.01.1945


Bombardment Squadrons (H):
	349th      XR
	350th      LN
	351st      EP
	418th      LD

Combat Aircraft:
B-17 F (Block 40-DL, 80-BO)
B-17 G
Stations:

• Podington, Bedforts.; 02.06.1943 to 08.07.1943
• Thorpe Abbots, Norfolk; 09.06.1943 to 11.12.1945

Group COs:

• Col. Howard M. Turner; 28.04.1943 to 06.1943
• Col. Harold Q Huglin; 06.1943 to 01.07.1943
• Col. Neil B. Harding; 02.07.1943 to 28.03.1944
• Col. Robert H. Kelly; 19.04.1944 to 28.04.1944, MIA
• Col. Thomas S. Jeffrey; 09.05.1944 to 01.02.1945
• Col. Frederick J. Suterlin; 02.02.1945 to 23.06.1945
• Lt.Col. John B. Wallace; 23.06.1945 to 12.1945

Lt. Col. John M. Bennett Jr. 28.03.1944 to 18.04.1944 temporary CO
Lt. Col. John M. Bennett Jr. 28.04.1944 to 09.05.1944 temporary CO

Facts:

First Mission:    25.06.1943
Last Mission:     20.04.1945
Total Missions:   306
Bomb Tonnage:     19,257 tons
A/C MIA:          177
Other Losses:     52
Major Awards:     Two Distinguished Unit Citations:
                  17.08.1943 Regensburg,
                  04/06/08.03.1944 Berlin.