The Memphis Belle
7.4
“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.
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18 people
Vince Evans
Himself
Jacob L. Devers
Himself (commander, European theatre)
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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
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Britain and the Blitz
The Coronation of King George VI
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
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World in Action
Royal Children
John P. Quinlan
Himself
William Wyler Director · Jerome Chodorov Writer Lester Koenig Writer
United States release April 13, 1944 · Produced in United States · Production U.S. Office of War Information, Paramount Pictures
Production
First Motion Pictures Unit US Army Air Forces
Production
U.S. Office of War Information
Production
Paramount Pictures
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United States
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Original language
English
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English
Release dates
United States · April 13, 1944
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XC
June 14, 1946 · Theatrical · Part of Země pruhů a hvězd
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