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1_43_3.jpg (27093 bytes) John B. "Jack" Kidd - Kidd Collection
1_44_1.jpg (34729 bytes) Roland Knight, left and Jack Kidd at briefing - Kidd Collection
1_44_2.jpg (25686 bytes) Group and Squadron Officers await a mission return. Extreme right, shielding eyes is the 100th's legendary Sammy Barr.  The Kidd Collection.
1_44_3.jpg (32190 bytes) Group Officers await mission return. On the top of the tower are from left Neil B. Harding, Group CO, and Jack Kidd Group Operations Officer. Lower are Sammy Barr with back to to camera at left, Sumner Reeder with hands on railing and Cosgrove from S-2.   Kidd Collection
1_44_4.jpg (33042 bytes) Officers await mission return.   Kidd Collection
1_45_1.jpg (24520 bytes) A mission takeoff on runway 28.   Kidd Collection
1_45_2.jpg (27651 bytes) Mission takeoff.   Kidd Collection
1_45_3.jpg (10321 bytes) 100th aircraft returning.   Kidd Collection
1_45_4.jpg (18703 bytes) Landing - Thorpe Abbotts.   Kidd Collection
1_46_3.jpg (30319 bytes) Roland Knight, left, Jack Kidd and M. Williams.   Kidd Collection
1_46_4.jpg (26364 bytes) Staff meeting at Thorpe Abbotts.   Kidd Collection
1_47_2.jpg (28065 bytes) John B. "Jack" Kidd - Kidd Collection
1_48_1.jpg (30346 bytes) 100th aircraft in Africa LD-V - 42-30066 - Charles Cruikshank/ John Egan, EP-A, Thomas Murphy & Bernie Lay (Foreground) this is the famous "PICADILLY LILLY,"  XR-J Cowboy Roane - "LADEN MAIDEN,"  XR-O,  Henington - "HORNY"   (100th Photo Archives)
1_49_1.jpg (31402 bytes) "JUST-A-SNAPPIN"  and the Everett E. Blakely crew in North Africa.  Detailed Information    (100th Photo Archives)
1_50_1.jpg (21063 bytes) "JUST-A-SNAPPIN" - Leading the 100th to Regenburg 17 Aug 1943   (100th Photo Archives)
1_50_2.jpg (35707 bytes) Telergma North Africa, 17 Aug 1943   (100th Photo Archives)
1_50_3.jpg (38735 bytes) Manual refueling in North Africa. Sheep may safely graze here.   (100th Photo Archives)
1_52_2.jpg (23665 bytes) Contrails   (100th Photo Archives)
1_52_3.jpg (26444 bytes) Fighter Escort   (100th Photo Archives)
1_52_4.jpg (24368 bytes) Flight Line medical standby units.    (100th Photo Archives)
1_53_1.jpg (40119 bytes) "JUST-A-SNAPPIN"  home from Bremen, 8 Oct 1943. The crash landing was at Ludham, England.   Kidd Collection
1_53_2.jpg (28803 bytes) "JUST-A-SNAPPIN"   Kidd Collection
1_53_3.jpg (35123 bytes) "JUST-A-SNAPPINKidd Collection
1_53_4.jpg (37374 bytes) "JUST-A-SNAPPIN"  There were over 800 holes in the aircraft.   Kidd Collection
1_54_2.jpg (32112 bytes) Maintenance personnel inspect "JUST-A-SNAPPIN"  - 8 Oct 1943.   Kidd Collection
1_55_1.jpg (48208 bytes) John B. "Jack" Kidd - Kidd Collection
1_55_2.jpg (22370 bytes) "JUST-A-SNAPPIN"   (100th Photo Archives)
1_55_3.jpg (25917 bytes) View of the English countryside from John B. Kidd's Thorpe Abbotts quarters   (100th Photo Archives)
1_55_5.jpg (24118 bytes) "JUST-A-SNAPPIN" at Ludham   (100th Photo Archives)
1_56_1.jpg (30134 bytes) John B. "Jack" Kidd, right, leaving the 100th in August 1944 - Rosie Rosenthal with back to camera.   (100th Photo Archives)
8_07_1.jpg (18856 bytes) Robert J. Horn crew
Back Row (l to r): Aubrey Slimm, Jr. (LWG), Russell A. Priester (BTG), Albert J. Shubak (TTG), Victor T. Saabye (RWG), Kenneth H. Mueller (ROG), ? Paul (Replaced by William T. Graser after picture was taken.)
Front Row (l to r): Charles E. Conner (BOM), William A. Newell (NAV), Bart E. Mahoney (CP), Robert J. Horn (P)   Detailed Information   (100th Photo Archives)
8_08_5.jpg (28125 bytes) Lt. Robert (Rosie) Rosenthal   Detailed Information   (100th Photo Archives)
8_10_1.jpg (29931 bytes) (L to R) Pat Gillen, Don Stewart, Ralph Farrell.   (100th Photo Archives)
sharpe1.jpg (38234 bytes) George D. Sharpe crew.  From left: George D. Sharpe, John L. Sanders, John J. Scott, George D. Wheatley, John D. Gray, Alfred Skeeters, Edward R. Smith, Richard J. White, and George E. Englehorn.   Detailed Information   (100th Photo Archives)