memphis belle

     

This B-17 flying fortress of WWII was named for a southern city & Margaret Polk, the girlfriend of the pilot

Trivia about memphis belle

  • Created by George Petty for Esquire in 1941, the beauty seen here was painted onto the fuselage of this famed World War II bomber
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a plane at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington.) Each side was painted differently to look like a different aircraft when this plane was used in a film about this B-17 named for a Tennessee girl
  • 1990:The crew of a B-17 bomber has to make one final bombing raid over Europe & then can return home

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