Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress first chronicled the journey of the historic aircraft in 1944. The 45-minute-long documentary is the work of legendary Hollywood director William Wyler. Per ...

The iconic B-17 Memphis Belle rolled out of a Wright-Patterson restoration hangar and into the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday evening after years of painstaking work to restore the ...

Historic color footage of the Memphis Belle B-17 bomber with her famous flight crew and other B-17s during WWII. Memphis Belle is the nickname of the Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress that was one of the ...

It's one of the most well-known World War II aircraft -- an icon really -- and beginning this week, visitors can see her up close and personal. The B-17F Memphis Belle exhibit opens Thursday, May 17, ...

The buffed silver fuselage of the Memphis Belle now belies the famed B-17 bomber's six punishing months of World War II air combat and the subsequent decades of neglect that left the plane battered by ...

The B-17 Flying Fortress used in the movie "Memphis Belle" has undergone interior refurbishment, including new seat foam and leather upholstery. The Liberty Foundation operates this airworthy B-17, ...

James Verinis’s children never met their grandfather, Jim Verinis, a co-pilot on the iconic World War II B-17 Memphis Belle. But back in May, they connected with an important part of family and ...

Do you have any idea how many B-17s were made? Over 12,000! That's right, 12,000. At the time, each plane cost some $300,000 to create. Do you know how many of those planes are left today or how many ...

May 17 (UPI) --Seventy-five years after completing its final mission in Europe as part of World War II, the B-17F bomber known as the Memphis Belle went on view at its new permanent home -- the ...

Gino Galvez, left, an Atlantic-Models scale model manufacturer, Stephen Ove, center,, the 6th Air Refueling Wing historian and Roger Jarman, the Atlantic-Models vice president, lift a scale model of ...