All too often, in the assumed and “taken for granted” freedom in which each successive American generation lives, the present seeks to oblterate the past - and that must never be allowed to happen! Knowing and remembering the price that past generations paid to save our nation, future generations can understand what they must do, if necessary, to preserve it.
R.E. Peppy Blount - We Band of Brothers
Updated Reunion Info
The 2012 reunion will be held in Columbia, SC and will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the forming of the 345th Bomb Group.
345th BOMB GROUP REUNION XXV
AIR APACHES
Columbia, SC
Details will be posted here when available.
For additional information contact:
Paul Van Valkenburg
Recently added information
NEW! The December 2011 Newsletter is available under the News tab above!
Excel spreadsheet of known 345th burials at National and Military Cemeteries. Our thanks to Randy Watkins for putting this together and allowing us to make it public.
Documentation regarding the attack on the S.S. Thomas Nelson (NEW - Large .pdf document)
Documentation of significant dates up to April 1944
2010 General Meeting Minutes
Letter detailing the ditching of "Chow Hound". (NEW!!!)