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Memphis Belle unveiled at US Air Force museum
2018-05-17
[CNN] Seventy-five years after its last bombing run in World War II, the newly restored Memphis Belle is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force in Ohio. The B-17F bomber was unveiled Wednesday at a private event honoring family members of the Memphis Belle crew. The airplane and displays of artifacts, including wartime uniforms, a flight suit, pilot wings and rare color archival footage, will be open to the public Thursday at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, the museum website says. The Memphis Belle returned to the United States after completing 25 combat flights over Nazi-occupied Europe, according to the museum. Its final mission was on May 17, 1943.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  again, thanks, MikeK!
Posted by: Frank G   2018-05-17 20:57  

#7  Seeing double.
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-05-17 18:24  

#6  People were cheering for the Belle, but you should heard them cheer for AF1.

Thanks Mike! Nicely done. My eyes are watering. Must be the Georgia humidity.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-05-17 16:02  

#5  People were cheering for the Belle, but you should heard them cheer for AF1.

Thanks Mike! Nicely done. My eyes are watering. Must be the Georgia humidity.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-05-17 16:02  

#4  ...Just got back to my hotel room after spending the day there at the NMUSAF. Belle looks amazing, and the way they have her displayed, vandalism isn't much of a problem. (She's about ten feet in the air.)

Best part was when the B-17s flew in this morning, escorted by 6 P-51s....and followed by Air Force One, which spent a couple hours shooting touch-and-goes on the main base runways. (The museum is on the old Wright Field part of the base; the runways and flightline are on the Patterson side.) People were cheering for the Belle, but you should heard them cheer for AF1.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2018-05-17 16:00  

#3  Cool. So how soon before some deranged SJW (BIRM) tries to spray paint over the nose art? Or a group of same tries to block the museum entrance?
Posted by: PBMcL   2018-05-17 15:21  

#2  The AF Museum is definitely worth the visit. They also have Bockscar that dropped the Nagasaki bomb prominently on display.
Posted by: Spot   2018-05-17 13:01  

#1  Nice. I'll be close by for the Hamvention these next few days. Good time to visit here!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2018-05-17 09:04  

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