The Memphis Belle - the first B-17 crew to complete 25 combat missions over occupied Europe - is now fully restored and on permanent display in Dayton, Ohio.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle completed 25 combat missions in 1943, spent decades deteriorating outdoors in Memphis, and was saved by a landmark restoration unveiled May 17, 2018.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle flew 25 combat missions over Europe in 1943, then sat neglected outdoors for decades before a 25,000-hour volunteer restoration returned her to glory.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores The Memphis Belle, the B Seventeen That Flew Twenty-Five and Went Home to Prove It Could Be Done.
TaildraggerThe Swamp Ghost is the world's only intact B-17E, recovered from a New Guinea swamp after 64 years and now displayed at Pearl Harbor.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle flew 25 missions, rotted for decades in the open, then took 13 years to restore for Dayton.
TaildraggerHow the B-17 Memphis Belle survived 25 combat missions in 1943, nearly rotted on a scrap heap, and was saved by a 13-year restoration.
TaildraggerOn December 20, 1943, German ace Franz Stigler refused to shoot down a crippled B-17 and escorted it to safety instead.
TaildraggerHow the B-17 Memphis Belle beat the odds to finish 25 missions in 1943 and survived a 13-year restoration to stand in Dayton today.
TaildraggerOn December 20, 1943, German ace Franz Stigler escorted a crippled B-17 to safety instead of shooting it down - the true story behind A Higher Call.
TaildraggerThe story of the Memphis Belle, the B-17 that flew 25 missions over Europe and survived a 13-year restoration to reach the museum floor.
TaildraggerThe Swamp Ghost is a B-17E that ditched in a New Guinea swamp in 1942 and sat intact for 50 years before recovery.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle survived 25 WWII missions, then a 13-year restoration returned the famous B-17 to display at the Air Force Museum in Dayton.
TaildraggerAluminum Overcast is one of fewer than a dozen airworthy B-17s left, kept flying by the EAA at Oshkosh's Wittman Field.
TaildraggerHow the EAA and its volunteers keep Aluminum Overcast, one of the last airworthy B-17 bombers, flying at Oshkosh and across America.
TaildraggerHow EAA volunteers saved B-17 'Aluminum Overcast' - a bomber that missed WWII by five days - and kept her flying as living history.
TaildraggerThe Swamp Ghost is a B-17E bomber that crash-landed in a Papua New Guinea swamp in 1942 and sat preserved and largely intact for 64 years before recovery.
TaildraggerThe Memphis Belle B-17 survived 25 combat missions over Europe, then 40 years of outdoor neglect, before a 12-year restoration returned her to museum condition in 2018.
TaildraggerOn October 14, 1943, the Eighth Air Force launched 291 B-17s against Schweinfurt's ball bearing factories and lost 60 aircraft and 600 men in a single day.
TaildraggerThe true story of Franz Stigler, the German ace who escorted a crippled B-17 to safety instead of shooting it down in December 1943.
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