The bomber retains its fame today. Those too young to remember it from the war may know its story from the fictionalized 1990 movie Memphis Belle, or from the B-17 (used in that movie) that now ...

Monument erected at RAF Bassingbourn to honour USAF Eighth Air Force 'Memphis Belle' tribute fenced off when Libyan soldiers relocated to base After outrage from enthusiasts and locals ...

It's May 1943 at a US Army Air Corps base in England. The four officers and six enlisted men of the Memphis Belle - a B-17 bomber so nicknamed for the girlfriend of its stern and stoic captain ...