Memphis Belle (1990) Part 9

Memphis Belle Movie 1990. I do not own this. All Rights Reserved to
Warner Bros. Pictures (A Time Warner Company). If you like the
Movie please buy the original DVD.

Memphis Belle is a 1990 film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and
written by Monte Merrick, starring Matthew Modine and Eric Stoltz
and introducing Harry Connick Jr. in his screen debut. It is a
fictionalization of the 1943 documentary Memphis Belle: A Story of a
Flying Fortress by director William Wyler, about the 25th and last
mission of an American B-17 bomber, the Memphis Belle, which was
based in England during World War II. The 1990 version was
produced by Wyler's daughter Catherine and dedicated to her father.

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[PhinfanUK]

@madhammudeux The Americans hit Berlin with over 1,000 aircraft several times in February 1945. It was common place for the British to do the same.

Targets were always hit in force.

[TaZ101SAGA]

No! Why did you throw those beautiful Browning .50 cals in the sea! :(

[SpenzOT]

@SpaceCowboy641 I wouldn't call it a documentary. The real Memphis Belle's last mission was a french milk run with no damage done to the plane. This movie seems to compile most of the worst horror stories that actually happened during the bombing campaign and put the poor Memphis Belle through it. Mid-air collisions, chunks of the plane blowing off, ball turret gunners getting blown out of their planes...they all happened, just not all at once.

[TheHIV123]

@EinundzwanzigPanzer Terror bombing first happened in WW1. There are instances of Zeppelins bombing London.

[SpaceCowboy641]

At least as good as "Battle of Britain" and almost a documentary. This movie is a gem !!!

[TheSupercaitlin1]

@Maggielovesummer I love joke too! I was just thinking of it just the other day!

[EinundzwanzigPanzer]

@EinundzwanzigPanzer So instead they relied on even bigger raids than the americans with even bigger heavy bombers with larger payloads so that they could level an entire city insetad of just a single area, it was simply the only way to guarantee that the target was hit when performing a nightly raid. Not that one should feel particulary angry about that since it was after all the germans who invented terror bombings during the spanish civil war.

[EinundzwanzigPanzer]

@EinundzwanzigPanzer At least the americans tried to achive some level of acuraccy with their (for the time) advanced Norden bombsights and daylight attacks, although the civilian losses were still awfully high. The british took another aproach with their bombing campaign. They relied on night bombings which helped reduce bomber losses a great deal, but it did mean that they had to abandon any hope of acuraccy, hitting a factory was simply impossible in the night.