B-17F "Memphis Belle"
Revell

Subject:: Boeing B-17F-10-BO Flying Fortress
US Army Air Forces (1941-1947)
324 BS, 91 BG, 8 AF 41-24485/DF-A Memphis Belle (Capt. Robert K. Morgan)
May 1943 World War 2 - RAF Bassingbourn
FS36173 FS34087 FS34092 FS34201
Scale:: 1:48
Status:: Ideas

Memphis Belle is the nickname of a Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress that was used during the Second World War that inspired the making of two motion pictures: a 1944 documentary film, Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, and a 1990 Hollywood feature film, Memphis Belle. The aircraft was one of the first United States Army Air Forces B-17 heavy bombers to complete 25 combat missions with her crew intact. The aircraft and crew then returned to the United States to sell war bonds. As of 2017, the aircraft was being restored at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio with plans to put it on display May 17, 2018.