HI everyone,
I have a friend at work whos father was a B-17 pilot in WWII. I hardly have much info to go on but his last name was Warfield and the name of his B-17 was Messy Bessie. Also that he was in the 101st Bomb Group.
I have searched all over the internet to a standstill. I am in a state of brain freeze because I just can't come up with something different to try or search for. I just can't find anyone or any info about the 101'st BG. Just by chance would anyone here know any links or info that might help me? Does anyone here happen to have any info on the bomb group?

Fire_spit

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Fire spit something is fishy about this......there ws no 101st bomb group that I am aware, at least not in the ETO. I have a listing of every bomb squadron in WW 2 so ask him what squadron he is in please. maybe he just got the numbering messed up as it has been a number of years.....

I will help all I can and so will several other knowledgeable experten

E ♪

I must be tired.........try here and post

www.armyairforces.com

they will gladly let ya know and check through the Pacific bomb groups because it sure isn;t one that flew over the Reich

by the way your image is slick of a 55th fg P-51. is that you in the cockpit ? sweet !!

Thanks Erich,
I will have to check with my friend. He has to have his numbers wrong because I do remember him saying that is Father did participate in the Normandy invasion. Exactly when or where??
He is on vacation next week so it will be just a little time before I can get better and accurate info from him.

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if he was in the 100th then this is very cool as today of all things there is a memorial going on in the Erzegebirge and over the weekend. 100th group flying close to the German/Czech border was massively assaulted by heavy Fw 190A-8's(sturm) and this was their first mission along with their proteective staffeln of III./JG 4 which flew the Bf 109G-6. to aid the US forces was the 55th fg and the 339th fg. A wild and ugly battle took place with many lives lost on both sides. i think I am wrong but at least 12 B-17's of the 100th were shot down and at least 2 B-17's from the 95th bg. September 11, 1944 has stuck out in my mind for several years until 2001 came along which marks an other deadly combat we would all like to forget.........
back in Germany/Czech veterans from both sides are there to commemorate the battle and tributes to the fallen.

www.lf.czu.cz/museum119

run by good friend Jan Zdiarsky and team. One of the best aviation archaeology web-sites on the net. these young men have done some incredible digs to sort through the mysteries of this terrible date....

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Hello Fire-Spit ; as Erich quite rightly says, there was no 101st...

It'd be great to find out out which Group this man was with as I've visited just about all the old East Anglian B-17 bases over the years.

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At the beginning of next week when my fried returns to work I will bug him to get me accurate info. It sounds like with the help of all of you in these forums I should be able to get a great wealth of info.
He always told me 101,st but maybe I am getting the 'bomb group' wrong because there was everything from wings to squadrons, to etc...
His Dad passed away quite some years back and he was one of the men that just never really talked about his service much..but he does have a book which is kind of like a year book. It has pages of pics of a lot of the different bomber crews. It is a really neat book to look through.
I am sure this book would have all the specific info to help us out.
I will post again here when I get some new info.

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