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The
307th Bomb Wing B-47/KC-97 Association serves the B-47 & KC-97 Cold
War era at Lincoln AFB, Nebraska during the period 1954-1965.
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Mission |
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The
307th Bomb Wing B-47/KC-97 Association is a worldwide
association of current and former members of the US
Armed Forces who were assigned to the 307th Bombardment
Wing, (M), SAC, at Lincoln AFB, Nebraska between 1954
and 1965. The purpose is threefold: to perpetuate the
legacy, history and memory of the 307th Bomb Wing; to
promote the camaraderie of its members; and to support
the US Air Force.
About
the Association
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WW2,
Post-War, Korean Vets, please note:
There
are several associations which serve the 307th Community throughout
it's history.
The
307th Bomb Group Association serves the B-24 "Long Rangers"
through their existance and Pacific Campaigns during World War II,
1941-1945. A contact for that group is Jim Kendall, group
historian at
Jmk307hist@aol.com
The B-29 era
from 1946-1954, which includes the Korean War is served by the 307th
Bomb Wing/Group Association. Their contact is their editor, Tom
Stevens, at stevenst@swbell.net
WHAT'S
NEW:
In order to make it easier
to find things on the site, we have added a Table of Contents that
will lead you to everything here except fpr the categories denoted
on the tabs at the top of this page.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS (TOC)...Click Here
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Photos...go to Photos
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Books
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- Newsletters since 1988
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- Crew Chiefs and their aircraft
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| Reunion
Information |
| The
Twelth Standup
Dayton
and the Air Force Museum
June
14 to 19, 2010
For
more info, click HERE
After
a winter of moaning while watching the thermometer, Bud and
Mike are ready to start running (err - would you believe a
staggering stroll?) to get more detailed planning accomplished,
so that the November 2009 issue of the newsletter can bring
you a fairly complete agenda.
Thus
far, about 160 members, spouses, and those we used to call
rug rats, have indicated a desire to attend. For this
point in time relative to the reunion, we are about even with
our attendence participation from the past reunion at Branson.
At Branson 224 folks were anticipated, but with dropouts it
came down to about 150 actually attending. We'd like
to do better than that! We hope to see our prospective
number creep up to 200 to get better hotel rates, etc.
We
plan a "Dinner Under The Wings" at the National
Museum of the United States Air Force, to include a concert
by the Air Force Band of Flight. Another highlight will
be a dinner cruise on an Ohio River sternwheel riverboat with
appropriate Dixieland Jazz from the era when the River Gentlemen
were all Gamblers and the ladies were all Belles.
The
week will be capped with our traditional banquet. In
betwixt, there will be lots of time to browse the AF Museum,
and to see the new B-47 and SAC Monuments. We also hope
to have a tour of some of the interesting Wright Brothers
related historical sites. By 2010 it is expected the
Museum will be twice as large as it was in 1996. It
recently took Mike three hours to lightly browse just the
new exhibits that have been added in the past year.
On
the reunion surveys returned to date, we have been surprised
by the popularity of the Wright Brother's Mansion, IMAX, and
the Restoration Hangar.
Our
headquarters is expected to be at the same hotel we used in
1996, and we'll have more info on that as it emerges.
So,
watch this space for further developments, and in the meantime
if you need to contact us, we are:
Bud
Flanik : airbud@aol.com
Mike
Gingrich: mikegingri@cs.com
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newsletter in favor of downloading it from the website at
this site, read on. You can terminate your postal delivery
by sending an email to Jan Boggess at LarryJanB@gmail.com,
providing your name and using the subject line "web
delivery". This will save the Association postal mailing
costs and will go into effect with the next newsletter.
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