The Memphis Belle(1944)

🎬45 min
📅1944-04-13
🎭Documentary, War
⭐6.7/10

Overview

This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

Production

First Motion Pictures Unit US Army Air Forces, U.S. Office of War Information, Paramount Pictures

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Cast

Vince Evans
as Himself
Jacob L. Devers
as Himself (commander, European theatre)
Ira C. Eaker
as Himself (commander, 8th Air Force)
Haywood Hansell
as Himself (USAAF)
Robert J. Hanson
as Himself (radio operator on The Memphis Belle)
Eugene Kern
as Narrator
King George VI of the United Kingdom
as Himself
Captain Charles B. Leighton
as Himself (Navigator on the Memphis Belle)
Harold P. Loch
as Himself (Engineer and top turret gunner on The Memphis Belle)
Casimer A. Nastal
as Himself ( 19 year-old waist gunner on The Memphis Belle)

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