The Memphis Belle

  • Documentary
  • War
4/13/1944
45
NR

Fly and Fight with the Crew on an Actual Bombing Mission Over Germany!

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.

Director:
William Wyler
Writers:
William Wyler
Jerome Chodorov
Lester Koenig
    • u.s. air force
    • aerial combat
    • military airplane
    • heroic mission
    • flying fortress
    • nazi germany
    • wartime propaganda

    Cast

    • 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
      Narrator
    • 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
    • Cecil H. Scott
      Himself (turrett gunner and oldest crew member on The Memphis Belle)
    • Captain James A. Verinis
      Himself (Co-pilot on The Memphis Belle)
    • Clarence E. Winchell
      Himself - waist gunner on The Memphis Belle
    • Stanley Wray
      Himself (group commander)

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