100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum
Thorpe Abbots, near Diss, Norfolk - England, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1379 740708
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Dedicated to the USAAF’s famous ’Bloody Hundredth’ Bomb Group, the museum is located in the restored control tower and nissen huts of the former WW2 bomber base. It tells the story of Thorpe Abbotts, portraying everyday life on an American bomber base. There are numerous exhibits, including .50 calibre waist guns, and a B17 ball turret. Only when you look at it do you appreciate just how cramped a ball turret gunner was - so cramped he would have to leave his parachute in the main body of the aircraft.
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