jschare
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A great documentary and it doesn't cost a dime...
http://www.archive.org/details/TheMemphisBelleAStoryofaFlyingFortress
http://www.archive.org/details/TheMemphisBelleAStoryofaFlyingFortress
Stony said:True, but the Memphis Belle crew did it with all the same people. The "Hells Angels" crew had some personnel changes during their missions.
The big, big point to the whole "Memphis Belle" story...
Is that in the early days of the air campaign against Germany, the average life expectancy of a bomber crew was something like 4 missions until you were shot down, killed, captured or wounded. They were getting slaughtered, so the first CREW and PLANE to achieve 25 missions was a HUGE moral/PR boost for the AAF. They had to take the message home that , YES it is possible to win this thing.
Stony said:One thing some people don't know about Morgan is that he led the first B-29 raid against Japan.
Stony wrote:
One thing some people don't know about Morgan is that he led the first B-29 raid against Japan.
Dauntless Dotty was his 29's name. He actually led the first raid on Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid, not the first raid on Japan.