(OT) My dad and I are going to Pittsburgh next week for a 100th Bomb Group
reunion. It's great to listen to all the stories!
http://100thbg.org/index.htm

-Greg B.
Yes, it is. I got introduced to one of the members of the group when I was
in college and then again in the USAF at Scott AFB when they did their
reunion in St Louis in 92 or 93 when he introduced me to Rosie and a few
others. Facinating listening to these guys joke about the mission where
Rosie's B-17 was the only one to come back! And then, oddly enough, hooked
up with the same guy again (Irv Waterbury) over here in England and joined
him for a tour of Thorpe Abbotts with his wife. Nice little case of
momentoes he donated to the museum, too. His sax is there in the case (the
same sax he was playing the night I met him in 1991 at the 100th BG
restaurant in Cleveland, if I'm not mistaken). Fascinating and extremely
generous man who's company I thoroughly enjoyed, but for too little time.
Irv passed away in, I think 1998 or so.

And, to top it all off, my last unit with the USAF was the 100th Air
Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall. It's been a loose but very interesting
association with an extraordinary unit.

Shawn
Former Capt, USAF