  
By 4:00 on the morning of October 8th., 1943, the departments of Group Photo, Armament, Signals, Ordnance, Navigation, Transportation, Weather, and Flying Control had been notified of the impending mission. The men were awakened at 7:00. After breakfast and briefing, engines were started at 11:30. The first B-17 of the Lead Squadron took off at 11:43. This was 'Our Babe', depicted crossing the field at about fifteen hundred feet in Robert Bailey's painting "Men of 7he Century". With her is a no-name B-17. As men stand anxiously on the Thorpe Abbotts control tower, 'Holy Terror,' (right), Queen Bee and Marie Helena taxi past. 'Marie Helena' was to collide with an FW-1 90 on this mission.
This limited edition print is to honor all those men, both in aircrew and groundcrew, who have made the 'Bloody Hundredth' a living legend.
Sheet Size: 26" x 16"
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