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Memphis Belle is saved from the scrapheap (TR)
UK Daily Mail ^ | 05/17/2018 | AP, Iain Burns, Megan Sheets

Posted on 05/17/2018 12:04:32 PM PDT by DFG

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William Wyler's "Memphis Belle: The Story Of A Flying Fortress (1944)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G28ys4TEpao

1 posted on 05/17/2018 12:04:33 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

It was at an air show here in Atlanta a few years ago. Flew in, flew out. I don’t know where this article is getting its information.


2 posted on 05/17/2018 12:07:06 PM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: DFG

Catch-22....................


3 posted on 05/17/2018 12:07:21 PM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: DFG

Today they’d all be drummed out of the service after painting that pinup on the nose of the plane. Who needs heroes, we have feelings to worry about.


4 posted on 05/17/2018 12:08:37 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: DFG

Is that 8 Nazi Luftwaffe shot down?

Awesome


5 posted on 05/17/2018 12:09:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: DFG

GREAT movie, too!


6 posted on 05/17/2018 12:09:13 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: bk1000

Me and my wife took a B17 ride some years back when it came to Columbia.

30 minutes was enough for 6’3, 260 pound me.

I recommend anyone to take a ride.


7 posted on 05/17/2018 12:10:20 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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“The plane, known for its risque nose paintings featuring a pin-up girl, was celebrated...”

As nose art goes, the Memphis Belle is pretty tame.

That said, now that we have to put up with all the out and about LBQSRXY crap, I think it’s time to bring back nose art.


8 posted on 05/17/2018 12:10:45 PM PDT by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: SaveFerris

Add one more for a total of 9. See Swastika under side window gunner position.


9 posted on 05/17/2018 12:11:20 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: DFG

Our fathers, grandfathers, uncles, great uncles, cousins.

DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER

“From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,

And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.

Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,

I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.

When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.”

Randall Jarell 1945


10 posted on 05/17/2018 12:12:27 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Beautiful bird!


11 posted on 05/17/2018 12:12:52 PM PDT by The Mayor (Honesty means never having to look over your shoulder.)
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To: DFG

The Flying Fortress is such a gorgeous aircraft.


12 posted on 05/17/2018 12:13:14 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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On interesting note, speaking of markings on the plane. Photos from the time (like the one you posted) show swastikas symbolic of something German they destroyed. Aircraft factories, whatever. Anyway the restored plan faithfully recreates the markings EXCEPT the swastikas. I presume they presume some snowflake would accuse them of glorifying nazis or something, ignorant of the true point being made.


13 posted on 05/17/2018 12:13:18 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: SaveFerris

the swastika by the nose gun means that one got a fighter

the bomb’s indicate number of missions but what do the stars over several of them mean?, military target?


14 posted on 05/17/2018 12:13:45 PM PDT by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
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To: bk1000

There are other B-17s in flyable condition. The ‘Belle has not been flight worthy in a very long time. Whatever B-17 you saw, it wasn’t this one.


15 posted on 05/17/2018 12:16:40 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: DFG

In the air with bomb bay doors open. I love it! What a worthy way to display the old girl.


16 posted on 05/17/2018 12:17:20 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: ConservativeWarrior
"That said, now that we have to put up with all the out and about LBQSRXY crap, I think it’s time to bring back nose art.">



Careful what you wish for now days you are most likely to end up with a risque Caitlyn Jenner with 'her' landing gear showing!
17 posted on 05/17/2018 12:17:24 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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p07

There's lots of later B-29 nose art that can't be posted here.

Memphis Belle is quite tame.

18 posted on 05/17/2018 12:18:19 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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My next door neighbor flew B-17’s. He said that gunners shooting down planes was more due to luck because the Bombers moved around so much. Moving around made you a harder target to hit. The only time they tried to fly completely level was when the bomb bay doors opened.
He later moved to fighters after his tour was up and said it felt like he had previously been flying a kite.


19 posted on 05/17/2018 12:18:28 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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20 posted on 05/17/2018 12:20:38 PM PDT by ethom
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