About this museum
Thorpe Abbotts was Station 139, home of the 100th Bomb Group — the 'Bloody Hundredth' of Masters of the Air — and the museum lives in the original control tower from which the ground crews counted the B-17s home, or didn't. Volunteer-restored since 1977 and free to enter, it is the benchmark for East Anglia's bomb-group museums: intimate, immaculate and heavy with particular human stories rather than general history.
The tower itself. Climb to the glasshouse, look down the ghost of the main runway, and the entire Eighth Air Force story reorganises itself around one Norfolk field.
Weekends March–October plus Wednesdays in summer; free entry (donate). Masters of the Air pilgrims are arriving in numbers; veterans' families get looked after wonderfully, per multiple moving reviews.
“Wow, what a fantastic place to visit!”— Pacman, visitor report
Airframe checklist
No preserved airframes are on public display here.
This is an aviation-history, memorial or archive collection rather than an aircraft collection.
Inventory researched 2026-07-18: source 1 · source 2. Aircraft move between sites; report corrections to the compiler.
Location & contact
- Address
- Common Road, Dickleburgh, Diss IP21 4PH
- Phone
- 01379 740708
- Website
- www.100bgmus.org.uk/
- Hours
- Sat–Sun 10am–5pm; Wed 10am–5pm (May–Sep)
(from your local clock — verify before travel) - Gazetteer
- EA-05 on the situation map