The Memphis Belle is a Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress used during the Second World War that inspired the making of two motion pictures: a 1944 documentary film, Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortre
Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress, Memphis Belle, 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, 9 June 1943
The crew back from their 25th operational mission. All were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
Crew of the Memphis Belle, left to right: Tech Sgt Loch, S Sgt Scott, Tech Sgt Hanson, Capt Verinis, Capt. Morgan; Capt. Leighton, Staff Sgt. Quinlan., Staff Sgt. Nastal; Capt. Vincent Evans and Staff Sgt. Winchell.
The Memphis Belle on a War Bond campaign at Patterson Field during World War II.
The National Museum of the United States Air Force is the official museum of the United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, six miles northeast of Dayton, Ohio. The NMUSAF is
Memphis Belle (aircraft)
…missions, after which the aircrew returned with the bomber to the United States to sell war bonds. In 2005 restoration began on the Memphis Belle at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio where, since May 2018, it has been on display. One of the several B-17s used in the 1990 feature film Memphis…
Aerial view of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
Boeing B-17F Memphis Belle on display in the museum's World War II Gallery.
The Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000 used as Air Force One by United States presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson (who was sworn into office on the plane), and Richard Nixon.
Apollo 15 Command Module Endeavour which carried David Scott, James Irwin, and Alfred Worden to the Moon in 1971 on NASA's fourth crewed lunar landing mission