Memphis Belle Moves To Dayton

[Mase Taylor]

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[Russell Holton]

It's saying "move into" it's new home, but goes on to say it moved from Memphis to Ohio in 2005. I guess it's been in restoration at Dayton these past 13 years.

[Randy Sohn]

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Mase, interesting article, I took Bob along with me years ago from some tourstop airport down in Carolina over to Charlotte in the B-29 FIFI.

best, randy

[B.Butler]

My wife's Dad and his two brothers were all Air Corps flying officers of some sort. Uncle Bob was a B-17 pilot in the 8th. One of the family treasures is a crew photo of him and some other guys with Memphis Belle.

I had to explain he wasn't one of the famous ten, but simply took some crew training in the airplane after its return stateside...or simply went out on the flightline with a camera.

It occurs to me that there may be hundreds of similar pictures in steamer trunks and cardboard boxes all over the nation.

[Randy Sohn]

It occurs to me that there may be hundreds of similar pictures in

Concur, been try'n to remember here what Carolina airport that was, now I recall that it was Asheville. But can't for the life of me remember now whether the woman with Bob that day was her or not.

best, randy

[Jeff Hartmann]

It's saying "move into" it's new home, but goes on to say it moved from Memphis to Ohio in 2005.

I was at NAS Memphis, AKA Millington Regional NQA, about 15 years ago and saw the "Memphis Belle" in pieces in a hangar there. They had rescued it from Mud Island and brought it to the airport. The group there was a bit ticked off that the Air Force wanted their asset back, and they intended to cut it up in order to transport it. It had a lot of corrosion, unless they did a LOT of work, it probably would never fly again.