The Memphis Belle and its legend continue to play to worldwide acclaim: The plane’s Web site receives 27,000 visits annually and the online “guest book” includes greetings in every language.

Memphis Belle started off as any other Boeing B-17F-10-BO, quietly rolling off the assembly line en route to U.S. Army Air Corps inventory. Bearing the manufacturer’s serial number 3470, ...

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The Memphis Belle took off from England on the morning of May 17, 1943, with a wave of 159 B-17s to drop bombs on the concrete Nazi submarine shelters at Lorient, France.

The flying Memphis Belle is one of nine B-17s in the United States still in operation, and one of six flown on a regular basis, Hill said. None of the ones still airborne have seen combat, however.

Piece by piece, Air Force restorers are assembling the B-17F Memphis Belle decades since the plane dodged flak and Nazi fighter planes over the skies of Germany and France in World War II.

The 'Memphis Belle' is one of the few remaining B-17 F-model aircraft built by Boeing Aircraft Corporation during World War II. Mr. Harris explained the history of the aircraft and her combat record.

And with next year marking the 70th anniversary of both the Memphis Belle's final mission and its assignment to MacDill, Brown said he is hoping a replica of the aircraft — the same B-17 used in ...

A new look has been bestowed upon the Memphis Belle (The Movie), the B-17 Flying Fortress used as the platform for the 1990 movie Memphis Belle, a ...

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 ...

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The Belle, the World War II vintage B-17 bomber that starred in the movie of the same name, has a permanent home at the Mud Island amusement complex near Memphis.