Memphis Belle: The Story of a B-17 Flying Fortress | Upscaled original footage documentary. This film, shot by Hollywood director William Wyler is a memorable testimony of the missions of WWII. insisted on using only genuine footage and soldiers, showing civilian audiences a more startlingly realistic view of the war than they'd seen before. This film is about the crew of a B-17 “flying fortress“ bomber as it approaches its 25th mission. They were often under enemy fire, but the cinematographers kept filming, and one lost his life. The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is a four-engined heavy bomber developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Relatively fast and high-flying for a bomber of its era, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II. It is the third-most-produced bomber of all time, behind the four-engined Consolidated B-24 Liberator and the multirole, twin-engined
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