Thorpe Abbotts

Map Reference TM180810
Multimap Aerial View
Runways 3 concret "A plan"
History

The 100th Bomb Group (The Bloody Hundredth), 13th Combat Wing, 3rd Air Division operated B17 Flying Fortesses from Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139) June 1943 - April 1945.

Thorpe Abbotts control tower c2000
Books

Freeman, R (1992) Airfields of the Eighth - Then and Now Buy it
Links

100th Bomb Group - Official Website
100th Bomb Group Museum
Richard Flagg's photos of Thorpe Abbotts

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