B-24 Liberators of the 93rd Bomb Group in formation over Europe, 1944
An Archive of the 93rd Bomb GroupOpening in 2026

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The record of the Eighth Air Force's 93rd Bomb Group, flying B-24 Liberators from Station 104, Norfolk. We are building it now, and we would rather be slow than wrong.

Examples of what's coming

Have photographs, letters or documents? If your family kept something from the 93rd, we would be honored to scan it and include it in the release. You keep the original. Nothing is too small, and nothing costs you anything.

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Where Things Stand

We're in the archives.

§ 01 · The Work

We came home from College Park with nine thousand scanned pages, and that is about a fifth of what we need. Every mission report, loading list and interrogation form gets checked against the others before anything here is called settled. That is the slow part, and it is the part that matters.

Documents Scanned
9,000
First trip to the National Archives
Mission Reports
About 1 in 5
Of the reports we need
Archive Trips
4 to 5 to go
Week-long trips to finish the job
Mission Log & Search
Before 2027
What we are aiming to open
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The Work Has Just Begun

We are only at the beginning.

What you see here is a fraction of what the 93rd left behind. Missions are still being reconstructed, crews still being named, photographs still arriving from families who kept them for eighty years. Leave your address and we will write when there is more to read.

Published on Substack. No more than a note or two a month, and one click to leave whenever you like.

Before We Open

An attic box. A shoebox ofletters. A name, remembered.

You do not have to wait for us to open. If you have photographs, letters, a flight log, a diary or anything else from the 93rd, send it now and it can be part of the release rather than an addition later. We scan it, we credit you, and you keep the original.

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