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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Today, we celebrate the 81th Anniversary of Glenn Miller’s first UK performance which happened to be at Thurleigh; home of the 306th Bomb Group. Miller’s Army Air Forces Band mounted a makeshift stage in one of the four hangars and opened with :”Moonlight…
In honor of Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth, the 306th B-17G Aircraft number 42-102547, was christened Rose of York. Named for Princess Elizabeth Windsor (later, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II), the plane was originally named Princess Elizabeth…
Captain Raymond J. Check took off on his twenty-fifth mission, and which should have been the last of his tour, flying Chennault's Pappy III. It was a milk-run bombing mission of a German airfield in Tricqueville, France. A big party was planned for the…
George was the fourth and longest serving Group Commander of the 306th from June 20, 1943 to September 23, 1944. Originally, George went to combat with the 303rd Bomb Group as Operations Officer and rose to Deputy Commander there before becoming Commanding…
When the war ended, the Eighth Air Force was disbanded and moved back to theUnited States for redeployment to the Pacific theater. However, the 306th BombGroup was assigned to complete an aerial mapping project of Western Europeand North Africa code named…