Explore significant dates, missions, people, and events in the history of the 306th Bomb Group. New entries will be added as we continue to preserve and share the Group's history.
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Exactly three years after the end of World War I, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia during an Armistice Day ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding. Two days before, an unknown American soldier, who had fallen somewhere on a World War I battlefield, arrived at the nation’s capital from a military cemetery in France. […]
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million […]
Since 2009 a volunteer crew of historical aircraft enthusiasts has invested more than 60,000 hours in returning the City of Savannah to its 1945 combat configuration. Today, this Flying Fortress is the finest example of a restored B-17G. Experience this restored marvel as you gain greater understanding and appreciation of the teenagers and young men of the […]
Apple TV+ has at long last released an official trailer for its much-anticipated World War II drama “Masters of the Air.” The nine-episode series, which is helmed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg and centers on bomber pilots of the Eighth Air Force, is the third WWII installment for the filmmakers following HBO’s “Band of Brothers” […]
In the fall of 1934, the US Army Air Corps, precursor to the US Air Force, asked airplane manufacturers to build prototypes for a multi-engine coastal defense plane. One catch: there was no money from the government to build it. Boeing essentially “bet the company” and spent all available cash to design and build what […]