From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan We have just returned from the 2006 edition of the 390th Bomb Group Veterans Association reunion held in Louisville, Kentucky. Some 250 people attended including about 125 veterans. As always it was an uplifting experience. Our veterans maintain a positive, patriotic, energetic outlook. The time is never sufficient [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan Our apologies to everyone who tried to use the telephone number given in the notice to call us regarding the Veterans reunion. There was a typographical error in the article and everyone who tried the number got a message that the number was disconnected. SORRY! It gives me [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan Reunion 2006 was a great success! Thank you Jim and Mary Truitt. We had 113 people at the Saturday banquet extravaganza including the flight/support crew for “Liberty Belle.” Many participants took advantage of the opportunity to get a ride in the B-17. Other folks enjoyed one of the [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan Greetings to all and welcome to 2006! We are well into the new year and membership renewals are coming in at a brisk pace. Thanks to all who have renewed for the coming year, and for everyone else, we still need you. Please continue your support! Reunion details [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan In 1979 the 390th Bomb Group Veterans Association held their very first reunion. We just returned from the latest iteration, the 27th! These reunions are bittersweet affairs. Many old friends are missing, but others return and memories are revived. Some 300 people attended the reunion in Washington, D.C. [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan As we go to press Don Brooks is beginning to sell rides on Liberty Belle to the public. FAA approval was obtained in June 2005. This is really great news and culminates several years of effort by Don and his staff. Now people from all walks of life [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan Our fourth annual reunion is in the history books and by most accounts was a big success. The group was not as large as we hoped, but those who attended enjoyed some fine field trips, an interesting day at the museum, and a sumptuous sit down banquet. Now [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan It’s in the mail! The invitations, that is. The invitations to the 4th annual reunion for members of the 390th Memorial Museum Foundation. This reunion is for all members. This includes Life, Veteran, Descendant and Associate members. We are well on the way to our goal of establishing [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan About every four years, the 390th Bomb Group Veterans Association holds their annual reunion here in Tucson. It is always a great pleasure to welcome the veterans, their spouses and descendants to the museum they so generously support. This year was certainly no exception. The veterans association has [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan We are halfway through 2004 already and well into the triple digit temperatures of July. Sure, it’s a dry heat, but it is still HOT. People here generally stay out of the heat like folks elsewhere stay out of the rain. So attendance at your museum is very [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan Reunion: As you may have noticed, we are two weeks late in publishing our J-Bulletin. We did this in order to bring you up to date information regarding the third annual reunion held April 15-17. Elsewhere in the Bulletin you will find photos of the festivities. This year [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan We consign another year to history. All I can say is that a year is not as long as it used to be. January begins a period of frantic activity as we close the accounting records for the year, prepare a myriad of government reports, prepare for the [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan We have just returned from the annual 390th Bomb Group Veterans reunion. It is most gratifying to talk with the veterans and their families about the museum. Everyone is so enthusiastic about this monument and the steps we are taking to improve our visitors’ museum experience. Of course [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan Reunion: If you missed the second annual 390th Memorial Museum reunion, as all but 75 of you did, you missed a very good gathering. Just ask someone who was here. Accommodations, activities and socializing were all great and those who attended told us they intend to come back [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan As we go to press, America is in the later stages of war in Iraq. I wish we were not there. My son is in the middle of the fight and I wish he were not there either. But it is past time for us to turn the [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan Another year is history…2002 arrived and departed with what seems to be unusual velocity. Are the years getting shorter? Your museum had a good year. We have been able to survive a real downturn in visitation as a result of reduced tourism. Our membership has increased by about [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan We have just returned from the latest reunion of the 390th Bomb Group Veterans Association. Once again the reunion committee and Armed Forces Reunions have put on an outstanding event which was attended by some 320 participants. For the first time, descendants who are members of the 390th [...]
From the Executive Director by Tom Drugan Our “New Tradition” got off to a good start! In spite of short notice and a somewhat “flexible” agenda, we had very good attendance at the first annual 390th Memorial Museum Foundation reunion. Everyone seemed to enjoy the Friday night social hosted by Jim and Mary Truitt, and [...]
Manager’s Message by Tom Drugan Welcome to the Spring, 2002 issue of the J Bulletin! This quarter’s editorial comment relates to political correctness run amok. Every day we are faced with liberal tyrants who want to tell the rest of us what to say and how to say it, strive to restrict our expressions of [...]