Reunion Information
UPDATED
We WILL continue to accept late reunion registrations as long as possible. Please email Reunion Chair at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call Nancy 414-339-2818 with questions.
2017 100TH BOMB GROUP FOUNDATION REUNION
OCTOBER 19-22, 2017
HYATT REGENCY DULLES
2300 Dulles Corner Blvd
Herndon, VA 20171
703-713-1234
NO MORE DISCOUNTED ROOMS AVAILABLE AT HYATT REGENCY DULLES
HYATT PLACE HERNDON DULLES
(ALTERNATE HOTEL)
13711 Sayward Blvd
Herndon, VA 20171
Hyatt Place Herndon Dulles is 2 blocks from the Hyatt Regency Dulles (.02 mi) - it has king and 2-queen rooms available to our group at $129/night, rate guaranteed until Sept 30. Hotel will honor rate after that date if space is available.
To reserve call hotel # above, or 1-888-492-8847 and request "100th Bomb Group Foundation" group rate. For online reservation go to
http://dullesairporteast.place.hyatt.com - enter
reservation code G-BGF2 under the "Corporate or Group Code" tab.
Reunion Registration Form
(to print and mail)
Questions? Please e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
100th Bomb Group Foundation Reunions are first and foremost a gathering of extended family. Program is changing so see below for THURSDAY SCHEDULE UPDATES in particular. Our good friend Val Burgess is unable to join us, but promises to be back next reunion. However, the addition of renowned Aviation Artist, Gil Cohen, is tremendous! The Silent Auction has many great items contributed so come with credit card and checkbook in hand.
SCHEDULE SUMMARY AS OF SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18
- 6:30 - 8:30PM Optional Dinner at Hotel for Early Arrivals (see registration form)
THURSDAY OCTOBER 19
- 9:00 - 11:00AM Board of Directors Meeting
- 10:00AM Reunion Registration Desk Opens
- UPDATE: 12:30PM - 5:00PM Arlington Cemetery Tour in open trams. LIMIT 105 - SIGN UP REQUIRED. Note: Wreath laying on 100th BG gravesites was not approved by Arlington because of ongoing burials.
- PENDING UPDATE: B-17 Memphis Belle (Movie) and 100th ARW KC-135 hope to be side by side at Dulles Signature Flight Thursday 1:00-3:00PM, conditions permitting.
- 6:30 - 8:30PM Welcome Buffet
FRIDAY OCTOBER 20
- ALL DAY Udvar-Hazy Smithsonian Air & Space Museum
- Located on edge of Dulles Airport, this museum attracts military & aviation buffs from around the world. You will be immersed in airplanes - from the earliest aircraft, to the P-51 and B-29 Enola Gay from WWII, to the Space Shuttle Discovery. There is a Restoration Center where one can observe ongoing preservation work, and an Observation Deck overlooking Dulles Airport. Docents are already preparing for our visit, including some WWII veterans. IMAX shows are optional throughout the day. Shuttle coach bus transport will be provided all day, so come and go as you wish.
- 5:30 - 7:00PM Symposium Dinner Buffet
- 7:00 - 9:00PM Symposium SEPT 11, 1944 RUHLAND MISSION & HISTORICAL RESEARCH
- 100th Bomb Group Historian Mike Faley, Jan Zdiarsky and others will present Historical Symposium centered on the 100th BG Ruhland Mission of Sept. 11, 1944. From reenacted Mission Briefing, to documentary air combat with loss of 12 100th BG B-17s and crew, and post-war research on the fate of planes and missing aircrew - this ongoing story is compelling. Losses were devastating for the 100th, but that was just the beginning. Decades later, after the fall of the Soviet Union, dedicated researchers set out to discover and excavate crash sites, document each crew’s fate, and solve the mysteries long-unanswered from that air battle in the skies of over Kovarska, Czech Republic. Families whose loved ones disappeared that day, still awaited news…. This remarkable story deserves to be told, and the 100th BG Foundation is proud to bring it to you.
SATURDAY OCTOBER 21
- 9:00 - 10:00AM General Business Meeting for Membership of 100th Bomb Group Foundation
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10:30 - 11:30AM A CONVERSATION WITH AVIATION ARTIST - GIL COHEN, ASAA - Gil Cohen is one of the most popular and collected aviation artists of all time. Through the years, Gil has completed 8th Air Force subjects including notables of the 100th BG. Gil's presentation profiles his 100th BG subjects, including "Rosie" Rosenthal, Harry Crosby, and his latest drawing, Valiant Return, commissioned exclusively for the 100th BGF Dulles Reunion.
- 11:30 - 1:00PM Buffet Lunch
- 1:15 - 2:30PM Phil Samponaro, 95th BG Historian, will tell his uncle‘s story, Dudley Ingraham, KIA 350th Sq
MY CHANCES OF COMING THROUGH: War, Loss & Memory in the 100th BG
- 2:45-4:00pm Jim Blakely, MD Son of Everett Blakely, Pilot and CO, 418th Squadron.
Black Week and Just-A-Snapin's Mission to Bremen, Oct. 8, 1943
- 5:30PM Reception and Banquet Dinner
As always, we welcome back our many friends including Jonna Doolittle Hoppes, active duty military members of the USAF 100th Air Refueling Wing, Curator and Museum volunteers from both Thorpe Abbotts 100th BG Memorial Museum (England) and Museum of Air Battle Over the Ore Mountains Sept 11, 1944 (Czech Republic), and others. ALL ARE WELCOME!
We look forward to seeing our 100thBG "family" at another amazing reunion gathering!
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