Hi all.
Advance notification for next year, gathering of former members of the three component bomb groups and their families, that flew as the 40th Combat Wing. Click on association details-reunion news info section for more details.
Ian W

Ian White - 305th BGMA Hon. Life Associate, UK Contact and Organiser of next years 40th Combat Wing UK Reunion - May 21st-31st 2009

Additional info and pictures for next years reunion tour at:-
 
http://IW.305cando.googlepages.com/40thcombatwingukreuniontour2009
 
Ian W

Ian White - 305th BGMA Hon. Life Associate, UK Contact and Organiser of next years 40th Combat Wing UK Reunion - May 21st-31st 2009

Hello Ian,
 
This sounds wonderful.  Me and Lisa are planning on attending.  If the dollar gets any worse I will have sell a kidney or something to afford the trip but we will make due.  Take care and thanks for everything you have done for the 305th BGMA - the group doesn't realize what a treasure they have in you and Bill.
 
-Chris

Thanks for the praise Chris, I am embarressd to receive!! Bill and I do what we do because we just get on and do it!!! Hope you can make next year, it should be a wonderful trip. I intend to add a couple of extra photos to the info webpage, covering the trips to Cambridge Kings College. Plus anything else I feel needs to be added.
 
Ian W

Ian White - 305th BGMA Hon. Life Associate, UK Contact and Organiser of next years 40th Combat Wing UK Reunion - May 21st-31st 2009

I have updated the 40th Combat Wing Reunion page with a couple of extra photos.
Ian W

Ian White - 305th BGMA Hon. Life Associate, UK Contact and Organiser of next years 40th Combat Wing UK Reunion - May 21st-31st 2009

Change of contact address for enquiries and bookings.
 
Hi all. I have amended the point of contact for this tour, to a more secure address in Bedford. Please refer to webpage information as above for full change of address.
Thanks.
 
Ian W

Ian White - 305th BGMA Hon. Life Associate, UK Contact and Organiser of next years 40th Combat Wing UK Reunion - May 21st-31st 2009

Hi all.
Update news on nex years 40th CW Reunion in UK
 
As plans are being finalised, as part of our planned celebrations, on Friday May 29th 2009, the group will be visiting as a privately organised group, onto what remains of the former home of the 92nd BG, Now home of the European Drag Racing Circuit SANTA POD. Members of the POD will welcome the group, explain how the site is used today, and all being well, give a demonstration of a Drag Racer to our group, thundering down the main runway as the B-17's once did 60 plus years ago. At the end of our visit, our tour bus will be given permission to leave the site via the same main runway, now the drag strip circuit.
 
Plans continue to be put in place for the remaining activities of this one day, part of the 10 day reunion.
 
Its now July, so time is creeping towards this important event!!
 
Ian W
 

Ian White - 305th BGMA Hon. Life Associate, UK Contact and Organiser of next years 40th Combat Wing UK Reunion - May 21st-31st 2009

Hi all.

A reminder that as we start September, we are reaching the time for deposits and booking confirmations on next years 40th Combat Wing gathering. Check the webpage link for further updates as they come along.

http://IW.305cando.googlepages.com/40thcombatwingukreuniontour2009

Ian W

Ian White - 305th BGMA Hon. Life Associate, UK Contact and Organiser of next years 40th Combat Wing UK Reunion - May 21st-31st 2009

Hi all. Further update on next years reunion here in UK.
I made a personal visit to the 306th FTG, Flight Training Group, whilst at our own annual 305th reunion Colorado Springs. Lt Col. Greg Johnson of the 306th FTG has expressed interest in our gathering next year and so is workin on the idea of bringing a group of Instructor Pilots of the 306th, to be at our celebrations. All their instructors are seasoned AF combat Pilots, currently teaching the cadets at the AF Academy. As the present incarnation of the 306th BG 'First Over Germany', Johnson and his fellow instructors are keen to support this reunion. Plans are to bring with them an audio-visual show to explain just how the 306th today trains the USAF's next generation of pilots.

Whilst also at the 305th BG reunion I spent time discussing the 305th AMW, Air Mobility Wing, involvement next May. They too are looking into participating and if things work out they shall fly a training mission using one of their aircraft to the UK, making a flyby over the event!

So, all 92nd - 305th - 306th Veterans and their families take note. This will be a reunion you should not miss!!!

Ian W

Ian White - 305th BGMA Hon. Life Associate, UK Contact and Organiser of next years 40th Combat Wing UK Reunion - May 21st-31st 2009