The Memphis Belle
Fly and Fight with the Crew on an Actual Bombing Mission Over Germany!
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4/13/1944Runtime
45 minsGenres
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This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
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A propulsive wartime documentary that puts you in the cockpit and gunner's turrets of a B-17 bomber on an actual combat mission. It's a visceral record of men at work under extreme pressure, shot with the immediacy of wartime footage.
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Heads up
Vince Evans
Himself
Jacob L. Devers
Himself (commander, European theatre)
Ira C. Eaker
Himself (commander, 8th Air Force)
Haywood Hansell
Himself (USAAF)
Robert J. Hanson
Himself (radio operator on The Memphis Belle)
Eugene Kern
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King George VI of the United Kingdom
Himself
Captain Charles B. Leighton
Himself (Navigator on the Memphis Belle)
Harold P. Loch
Himself (Engineer and top turret gunner on The Memphis Belle)
Casimer A. Nastal
Himself ( 19 year-old waist gunner on The Memphis Belle)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Herself
John P. Quinlan
Himself
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