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(02/22/2018) -- Museum restoration specialist Jason Davis works on bomb bay components for the Boeing B-17F Memphis Belle. Plans call for the aircraft to be placed on permanent public display in the WWII Gallery here at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on May 17, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock)


Boeing B-17F Memphis Belle™

(02/22/2018) -- Museum restoration specialist Jason Davis works on bomb bay components for the Boeing B-17F Memphis Belle. Plans call for the aircraft to be placed on permanent public display in the WWII Gallery here at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on May 17, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ken LaRock)

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The Boeing B-17F Memphis Belle in the WWII Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. This aircraft will be placed on permanent public display on May 17, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Memphis Belle at Patterson Field (now Wright-Patterson AFB) in July 1943.
Memphis Belle crew and ground crew celebrating the completion of the tour.
Maj William Wyler (center) with two of his cameramen—William Clothier (right) and William Skall (in window)—and British war correspondent Cavo Chin (left).
Warning from a booklet dropped by the thousands on Germany. It reads: “Attack—by Day and by Night. The giant bombers of the RAF—Stirlings, Halifaxes and Lancasters—carry out heavy night operations. Now they are unleashing the special machines of the American air force by day.”
Black smoke boils up through cloud cover from oil refineries at Hamburg, Germany, after an Eighth Air Force blind bombing attack on October 25, 1944.
The day before the invasion, heavy bombers pounded enemy coastal defenses far north of the actual beaches. This was part of a successful trick to make the German defenders believe the landing would be in a different place.
Eighth Air Force B-17s bombing the railroad yards in Donauworth, Germany, in April 1945. The smoke is from a marker signaling the bomb drop.
USAAF Heavy Bomber Cost
Fifteenth Air Force B-17s fly over mountains in Yugoslavia en route to the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) on June 2, 1944.
Royal Air Force (RAF) Spitfire off the wing of a B-17. Flown by RAF and American pilots, the short-ranged Spitfire was the USAAF’s heavy bomber escort until mid-1943.
B-24s bomb Diepholz airfield in Germany—this important air base was hit several times during Big Week.
Ken LaRock
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