100th BG legacy nose art, ‘Just-A-Snappin’ joins 100th ARW, Bloody Hundredth heritage

Left to right, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Scott Engman, 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron commander; Jim Blakely, son of World War II and 100th Bomb Group pilot, then-1st Lt. Everett Blakely; Steve Crosby, son of 100th BG navigator, then-1st Lt Harry Crosby, and Col. Ryan Garlow, 100th Air Refueling Wing commander, pose for a photo with the 100th ARW’s latest legacy nose art, “Just-A-Snappin,” during the nose art ceremony at RAF Mildenhall, England, June 9, 2025. The Just-A-Snappin nose art has now been added to a KC-135 Stratotanker and focuses on the profile of Harry Crosby, also incorporating a background of a navigator’s dead-reckoning computer, and the names of the entire crew who flew the Bremen mission over Germany in October 1943. (U.S. Air Force photo by Karen Abeyasekere)

PHOTO BY: Karen Abeyasekere

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NIKON Z 7_2

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NIKKOR Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S

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500/100

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10/1000

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800

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