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The 100th Air Refueling Wing (100th ARW), nicknamed the Bloody Hundredth, is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Third Air Force, United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa. It is stationed at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, United Kingdom. It is also the host wing at RAF Mildenhall. The 100th ARW is the only permanent U.S. air refueling wing in the European theater, operating the Boeing KC-135R/T Stratotanker. During World War II, its predecessor unit, the 100th Bombardment Group (Heavy), was an Eighth Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress unit in England, stationed at RAF Thorpe Abbotts. Flying over 300 combat missions, the group earned two Distinguished Unit Citations (Regensburg, 17 August 1943; Berlin, 4/6/8 March 1944). The group suffered tremendous losses in combat, with 177 aircraft missing in action (MIA), flying its last mission on 20 April 1945. One of the wing's honors is that it is the only modern USAF operational wing allowed to display on its assigned aircraft the tail code (Square-D) of its World War II predecessor. The 379th Bomb Wing used its Triangle-K tail code until deactivated in 1993, but when reactivated as the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing was assigned a rotating mix of flying squadrons who used their parent unit's tail code. The Triangle-K is retained as an unofficial unit insignia.

‘Masters of the Air’ – Interview:

2 November, 2024 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 3 categories

The Bloody Hundredth is a compelling and sobering documentary directed by Laurent Bouzereau and Mark Herzog that offers a poignant companion piece to the Masters of the Air miniseries. It features 100th Bomb Group veteran Major Robert Rosenthal

‘Masters of the Air’ – Official Trailer:

23 October, 2024 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 3 categories

Masters of the Air is a 2024 war drama miniseries created by John Shiban and John Orloff for Apple TV+. It is based on the 2007 book of the same name by Donald L. Miller and follows the actions of the 100th Bomb Group, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy

Writer and journalist Justine Picardie takes us back to 1947 in this podcast interview to meet resistance fighter Catherine Dior. The youngest sister of the renowned French designer, Catherine’s story of survival during World War 2 is one of great courage and it is being told at last. Photo Credit: Travels Through Time

‘The New Look’ – Interview:

30 September, 2024 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 3 categories

Writer and journalist Justine Picardie takes us back to 1947 to meet resistance fighter Catherine Dior. The youngest sister of the renowned French designer, Christian Dior. Catherine’s story of survival during World War II is

‘The New Look’ – Official Trailer:

20 September, 2024 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 3 categories

History can not only be traced by the events of its time, but it can also be traced by its fashion, each era of history will always most naturally coincide with a time defined by

J. Robert Oppenheimer spoke about the atomic bomb in a 1965 interview with CBS News and Mike Wallace. Photo Credit: CBS News Archive

‘Oppenheimer’ – Interview:

15 April, 2024 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 7 categories

In 1965, J. Robert Oppenheimer sat down with CBS News reporter Mike Wallace, in part of that interview, provided by CBS News archives, Wallace asks Oppenheimer if he thinks the use of the bomb was

‘Oppenheimer’ – Official Trailer:

3 April, 2024 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 7 categories

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the

Angela Lansbury stars as mystery writer and crime solver Jessica Fletcher on the CBS television crime drama series "Murder, She Wrote." Image dated: January 1, 1990. Los Angeles, CA. Photo Credit: CBS via Getty Images

Poor One Out For Mrs. Potts…

28 September, 2023 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 2 categories

Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury DBE was born on October 16, 1925, in London, England, to an aristocratic family. Her mother, Moyna Macgill, was a renowned actress, and her father, Edgar Lansbury, was a prominent politician

9/11 And Hollywood: Editing Out A Memory:

11 September, 2022 Siobhan Marie Day 0 Comments 1 category

It was like something out of a movie, watching the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and the destruction of the Twin Towers using planes, when terrorists attacked them with our

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