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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,942 --> 00:00:03,980 (somber music plays) 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:11,018 --> 00:00:14,357 (airplane engines roar) 5 00:00:23,832 --> 00:00:28,471 (suspenseful militaristic music plays) 6 00:00:55,063 --> 00:01:00,064 (suspenseful militaristic music continues) 7 00:01:21,923 --> 00:01:25,228 (airplane engine hums) 8 00:01:27,929 --> 00:01:32,936 (suspenseful militaristic music continues) 9 00:01:42,109 --> 00:01:45,448 (airplane engine roars) 10 00:01:53,955 --> 00:01:58,928 (suspenseful militaristic music continues) 11 00:02:20,398 --> 00:02:23,564 (upbeat music plays) 12 00:02:55,267 --> 00:02:58,771 (upbeat music continues) 13 00:03:19,624 --> 00:03:22,762 (gentle music plays) 14 00:03:35,974 --> 00:03:39,111 (horse hooves clop) 15 00:03:41,980 --> 00:03:44,414 - [Narrator] This is a battlefront, 16 00:03:44,483 --> 00:03:45,881 a battlefront like no other 17 00:03:45,950 --> 00:03:48,649 in the long history of mankind's wars. 18 00:03:50,489 --> 00:03:52,825 This is an air front. 19 00:03:55,155 --> 00:03:58,498 (dramatic music plays) 20 00:04:28,693 --> 00:04:32,365 (dramatic music continues) 21 00:04:34,965 --> 00:04:39,134 The working day begins as it will end with the ground crews, 22 00:04:39,203 --> 00:04:41,541 as much a part of the Fortress as her wings. 23 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:45,275 If you are a mechanic, you've got your own bomber. 24 00:04:45,344 --> 00:04:46,546 You get attached to it, 25 00:04:47,712 --> 00:04:49,812 but you know when your ship goes out on a mission, 26 00:04:49,881 --> 00:04:51,980 you may never see it again, 27 00:04:52,049 --> 00:04:54,651 so you do your work as well as it can be done, 28 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,252 perfectly, 29 00:04:56,321 --> 00:04:58,454 because you wouldn't want anything to go wrong 30 00:04:58,523 --> 00:04:59,825 that would be your fault. 31 00:05:01,359 --> 00:05:05,030 (dramatic music continues) 32 00:05:15,540 --> 00:05:18,007 Today the bombs will be taken from these bomb dumps 33 00:05:18,076 --> 00:05:19,508 somewhere in England 34 00:05:19,577 --> 00:05:22,882 and delivered to specific points in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. 35 00:05:23,881 --> 00:05:27,553 (dramatic music continues) 36 00:05:30,755 --> 00:05:33,689 To deliver them is the job of the 8th Bomber Command. 37 00:05:33,758 --> 00:05:35,624 Just a hauling job, 38 00:05:35,693 --> 00:05:37,527 yet one of the most difficult and complicated 39 00:05:37,596 --> 00:05:39,231 of military operations. 40 00:05:40,432 --> 00:05:44,537 (relaxed harmonica music plays) 41 00:05:54,946 --> 00:05:58,584 (suspenseful music plays) 42 00:06:04,122 --> 00:06:06,222 General purpose demolition bombs, 43 00:06:06,291 --> 00:06:10,059 impact velocity as high as 750 miles an hour, 44 00:06:10,128 --> 00:06:12,228 pierce five inches of armor plate, 45 00:06:12,297 --> 00:06:13,633 destroy a factory. 46 00:06:17,803 --> 00:06:19,401 Briefing at 08:00. 47 00:06:19,470 --> 00:06:22,408 Pilots, bombardiers and navigators take their places. 48 00:06:23,474 --> 00:06:25,241 The group commander, Colonel Stanley Ray, 49 00:06:25,310 --> 00:06:27,075 steps up to the target map 50 00:06:27,144 --> 00:06:29,810 and for the first time you learn where you're going. 51 00:06:31,115 --> 00:06:33,749 Sometimes your face turns white when you find out. 52 00:06:33,818 --> 00:06:35,585 Sometimes the feeling you won't come back 53 00:06:35,654 --> 00:06:37,156 tightens your insides. 54 00:06:38,290 --> 00:06:40,055 Not so long ago, you were sitting like this 55 00:06:40,124 --> 00:06:42,425 in a college or high school classroom, 56 00:06:42,494 --> 00:06:43,927 not listening too hard, 57 00:06:43,996 --> 00:06:46,028 perhaps even a little sleepy. 58 00:06:46,097 --> 00:06:47,500 But you listen here 59 00:06:48,933 --> 00:06:51,935 and as you listen, you don't have time to think of yourself. 60 00:06:52,004 --> 00:06:53,436 Fear fades. 61 00:06:53,505 --> 00:06:55,271 You concentrate on the mission, 62 00:06:55,340 --> 00:06:56,438 type of formation, 63 00:06:56,507 --> 00:06:58,941 assembly point, zero hour, 64 00:06:59,010 --> 00:07:01,277 route to target, weather, 65 00:07:01,346 --> 00:07:03,780 enemy fighters, enemy flak, 66 00:07:03,849 --> 00:07:05,246 route back home. 67 00:07:05,315 --> 00:07:07,883 If forced down in enemy territory, destroy equipment. 68 00:07:07,952 --> 00:07:09,785 If taken prisoner, give no information. 69 00:07:09,854 --> 00:07:12,157 Name, rank and serial number, that's all. 70 00:07:13,192 --> 00:07:16,496 (emotive music plays) 71 00:07:42,221 --> 00:07:45,788 These are the passengers with one-way tickets 72 00:07:45,857 --> 00:07:49,459 and this is the crew of the Memphis Belle, 73 00:07:49,528 --> 00:07:53,232 324th Squadron, 91st Heavy Bombardment Group. 74 00:07:54,233 --> 00:07:56,632 Just one plane and one crew, 75 00:07:56,701 --> 00:07:59,669 in one squadron, in one group 76 00:07:59,738 --> 00:08:03,005 of one wing of one air force 77 00:08:03,074 --> 00:08:06,211 out of 15 United States Army air forces. 78 00:08:08,746 --> 00:08:12,281 Well fellas, we've never had an easy ride over there yet, 79 00:08:12,350 --> 00:08:14,017 and today won't be any different. 80 00:08:14,086 --> 00:08:16,285 No escort except unfriendly 81 00:08:16,354 --> 00:08:17,987 so keep your eyes peeled. 82 00:08:18,056 --> 00:08:19,121 Don't get excited and yell 83 00:08:19,190 --> 00:08:21,023 when you're talking on the intercom. 84 00:08:21,092 --> 00:08:23,692 Save your ammunition and make your shots count. 85 00:08:23,761 --> 00:08:26,157 Let me know what goes on back there, Quinlan. 86 00:08:26,226 --> 00:08:27,099 Yes, sir. 87 00:08:28,067 --> 00:08:29,198 Stay on the ball, gang, 88 00:08:29,267 --> 00:08:31,033 and she'll bring us back like she's always done. 89 00:08:31,102 --> 00:08:32,933 Okay, let's go. 90 00:08:38,409 --> 00:08:41,144 They have completed 24 missions in this, 91 00:08:41,213 --> 00:08:43,212 the toughest theater of air war, 92 00:08:43,281 --> 00:08:45,681 the big league of sky fighting. 93 00:08:45,750 --> 00:08:47,453 Their experience is priceless. 94 00:08:48,787 --> 00:08:51,720 And so if the Memphis Belle comes back this afternoon, 95 00:08:51,789 --> 00:08:52,988 they will be sent to bring 96 00:08:53,057 --> 00:08:54,890 the vital lessons they have learned 97 00:08:54,959 --> 00:08:57,630 to thousands of aircrew men in training at home. 98 00:08:58,964 --> 00:09:00,466 Home is America. 99 00:09:02,634 --> 00:09:05,571 (propellers whir) 100 00:09:21,453 --> 00:09:25,925 This is a battlefront like no other in this or any war. 101 00:09:26,825 --> 00:09:28,424 No monster armies, 102 00:09:28,493 --> 00:09:30,260 no booming cannon, 103 00:09:30,329 --> 00:09:33,094 only the roaring engine sound of the bombers 104 00:09:33,163 --> 00:09:36,266 pounding through the quiet English countryside. 105 00:09:36,335 --> 00:09:38,338 This is an air front. 106 00:09:39,604 --> 00:09:42,508 (propellers whir) 107 00:09:45,344 --> 00:09:48,814 (airplane engines growl) 108 00:10:12,204 --> 00:10:15,541 (airplane engines roar) 109 00:10:42,066 --> 00:10:46,539 (airplane engines continue to roar) 110 00:11:14,098 --> 00:11:18,438 (airplane engines continue to roar) 111 00:11:45,897 --> 00:11:48,531 The wheels of the Memphis Belle leave the soil of England 112 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:49,969 for the 25th time. 113 00:11:51,236 --> 00:11:53,335 The friendly soil of England, 114 00:11:53,404 --> 00:11:56,066 with its ordered farms and rural hamlets, 115 00:11:56,135 --> 00:11:58,875 its country estates surrounded by formal gardens 116 00:11:58,944 --> 00:12:00,843 and well-kept parks. 117 00:12:00,912 --> 00:12:02,411 The England these Americans knew 118 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:04,984 only from the classics they had to read in school. 119 00:12:05,983 --> 00:12:08,584 The England of the towns and cities 120 00:12:08,653 --> 00:12:10,754 whose people have defended their island's freedom 121 00:12:10,823 --> 00:12:12,492 for over 1,000 years. 122 00:12:13,792 --> 00:12:16,926 But today their countryside has changed. 123 00:12:16,995 --> 00:12:19,062 Today their island has been converted 124 00:12:19,131 --> 00:12:21,264 into a gigantic bomber field, 125 00:12:21,333 --> 00:12:23,265 a super aircraft carrier 126 00:12:23,334 --> 00:12:25,868 anchored off the shores of fortress Europe 127 00:12:25,937 --> 00:12:27,936 with hangers and machine shops, 128 00:12:28,005 --> 00:12:29,605 with hundreds of dispersal points, 129 00:12:29,674 --> 00:12:32,172 perimeter tracks and concrete runways. 130 00:12:33,311 --> 00:12:36,148 This is England in its fifth year of war. 131 00:12:39,184 --> 00:12:41,784 (airplane engines roar) 132 00:12:41,853 --> 00:12:45,054 And this is the new battlefront, the air front, 133 00:12:45,123 --> 00:12:47,290 from which we seek out the enemy. 134 00:12:47,359 --> 00:12:49,291 Not his infantry or his artillery, 135 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:50,894 not his Panzer divisions, 136 00:12:50,963 --> 00:12:52,628 but the greater menace, 137 00:12:52,697 --> 00:12:55,291 the industrial heart of his nation, 138 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:59,095 the foundation on which the Nazi empire and its army stand, 139 00:12:59,164 --> 00:13:02,542 the power behind the German lust for conquest. 140 00:13:03,375 --> 00:13:05,141 The steel mills and refineries, 141 00:13:05,210 --> 00:13:07,476 shipyards and submarine pens, 142 00:13:07,545 --> 00:13:09,779 factories and munitions plants, 143 00:13:09,848 --> 00:13:12,648 pinpoints on the map of Europe which mean rubber, 144 00:13:12,717 --> 00:13:14,150 guns, ball bearings, 145 00:13:14,219 --> 00:13:15,485 shells, engines, 146 00:13:15,554 --> 00:13:17,890 planes, tanks, targets, 147 00:13:19,224 --> 00:13:20,693 targets to be destroyed. 148 00:13:22,527 --> 00:13:24,224 And these are the destroyers, 149 00:13:25,163 --> 00:13:26,995 each with a belly full of bombs 150 00:13:27,064 --> 00:13:30,466 and 10 men like the crew of the Memphis Belle: 151 00:13:30,535 --> 00:13:32,162 Pilot Captain Robert Morgan, 152 00:13:32,231 --> 00:13:35,171 industrial engineer from Asheville, North Carolina. 153 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:37,839 He's flown this ship across the Atlantic. 154 00:13:37,908 --> 00:13:40,143 The other pilot, Captain Jim Verinis, 155 00:13:40,212 --> 00:13:41,644 business administration student 156 00:13:41,713 --> 00:13:43,679 at the University of Connecticut. 157 00:13:43,748 --> 00:13:46,316 Radio operator and gunner, Sergeant Bob Hanson, 158 00:13:46,385 --> 00:13:49,152 construction worker from Spokane, Washington. 159 00:13:49,221 --> 00:13:51,187 Navigator, Captain Chuck Leighton, 160 00:13:51,256 --> 00:13:53,253 chemistry student at Ohio Wesleyan. 161 00:13:54,426 --> 00:13:56,859 Engineer and top turret gunner Sergeant Harold Loch 162 00:13:56,928 --> 00:13:59,932 from Green Bay, Wisconsin, used to be a stevedore. 163 00:14:00,932 --> 00:14:02,498 Besides keeping the bill in order, 164 00:14:02,567 --> 00:14:04,103 he covers the sky above. 165 00:14:05,436 --> 00:14:08,364 Tail gunner Sergeant John Quinlan of Yonkers, New York, 166 00:14:08,433 --> 00:14:12,612 clerked for a carpet company but he quit December 8th, 1941. 167 00:14:13,712 --> 00:14:16,545 Ball turret gunner, Sergeant Cecil Scott, 168 00:14:16,614 --> 00:14:19,279 pressman for a rubber company in Rahway, New Jersey. 169 00:14:23,288 --> 00:14:26,592 Pilot to crew, 10,000, put on oxygen. 170 00:14:28,127 --> 00:14:29,726 They're climbing higher now, 171 00:14:29,795 --> 00:14:31,394 300 feet a minute. 172 00:14:31,463 --> 00:14:34,133 The strain on the planes and on the men is mounting. 173 00:14:36,767 --> 00:14:40,336 The rest of the crew, Bombardier Captain Vincent Evans, 174 00:14:40,405 --> 00:14:43,572 operated a fleet of trucks in Fort Worth, Texas. 175 00:14:43,641 --> 00:14:46,069 Waist gunners, on the right, Sergeant Bill Winchell, 176 00:14:46,138 --> 00:14:48,211 chemist for a paint company in Chicago 177 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,546 and on the left, Sergeant Tony Nastal, 178 00:14:50,615 --> 00:14:52,415 used to repair washing machines in Detroit 179 00:14:52,484 --> 00:14:53,682 when he was a kid. 180 00:14:53,751 --> 00:14:56,956 Now he's 19 and has two Nazi fighters confirmed. 181 00:15:03,828 --> 00:15:05,727 It takes all of a pilot's strength 182 00:15:05,796 --> 00:15:09,097 to keep a 30-ton Fortress in tight formation, 183 00:15:09,166 --> 00:15:11,734 but the formation is the bomber's best defense 184 00:15:11,803 --> 00:15:13,172 against enemy fighters. 185 00:15:14,306 --> 00:15:17,239 The planes are deployed to uncover every gun, 186 00:15:17,308 --> 00:15:19,011 stepped up and down, 187 00:15:19,844 --> 00:15:22,181 echelon to the right and left, 188 00:15:23,348 --> 00:15:25,215 arranged to overcome the danger of gunners 189 00:15:25,284 --> 00:15:26,949 firing into friendly ships, 190 00:15:27,018 --> 00:15:29,785 arranged so concentrated cones of fire 191 00:15:29,854 --> 00:15:33,289 from the caliber 50 machine guns cover the sky 192 00:15:33,358 --> 00:15:36,529 for 1,000 yards in every direction. 193 00:15:37,529 --> 00:15:40,866 (airplane engines hum) 194 00:15:43,501 --> 00:15:46,635 The friendly coast of England slips by below. 195 00:15:46,704 --> 00:15:48,804 It doesn't look like much now, 196 00:15:48,873 --> 00:15:51,074 but in a few hours when you come back, 197 00:15:51,143 --> 00:15:52,641 if you come back, 198 00:15:52,710 --> 00:15:55,348 this will be the most beautiful view in the world. 199 00:15:59,017 --> 00:16:00,311 Higher and higher, 200 00:16:00,380 --> 00:16:02,919 climbing to reach your best operational altitude, 201 00:16:02,988 --> 00:16:05,255 25,000 feet, 202 00:16:05,324 --> 00:16:07,289 five miles straight up, 203 00:16:07,358 --> 00:16:09,158 so high you can't be seen from the ground 204 00:16:09,227 --> 00:16:10,826 with the naked eye, 205 00:16:10,895 --> 00:16:12,996 so high that after one minute without oxygen 206 00:16:13,065 --> 00:16:14,998 you lose consciousness. 207 00:16:15,067 --> 00:16:17,002 After 20 minutes, you're dead. 208 00:16:18,170 --> 00:16:21,402 (airplane engines hum) 209 00:16:23,407 --> 00:16:26,109 From now to the target, you go about your routine duties, 210 00:16:26,178 --> 00:16:28,344 plot your course, check your equipment 211 00:16:28,413 --> 00:16:30,383 and wait and think. 212 00:16:33,050 --> 00:16:37,853 Higher and colder, temperature 40 degrees below zero. 213 00:16:37,922 --> 00:16:40,259 Take off your glove and you lose some fingers. 214 00:16:41,426 --> 00:16:43,692 You look out at the strange world beyond, 215 00:16:43,761 --> 00:16:45,527 reflections in plexiglass 216 00:16:45,596 --> 00:16:48,701 like nothing you ever saw before outside of a dream. 217 00:16:50,768 --> 00:16:55,074 (airplane engines continue to hum) 218 00:16:58,438 --> 00:17:01,877 Higher and higher into the lightless stratosphere 219 00:17:01,946 --> 00:17:03,379 until the exhaust of the engines 220 00:17:03,448 --> 00:17:06,182 mixing with the cold, thin air condenses 221 00:17:06,251 --> 00:17:08,621 and streams the heavens with paper trails. 222 00:17:16,128 --> 00:17:17,027 To the men in the ships, 223 00:17:17,096 --> 00:17:18,827 they're far from beautiful, 224 00:17:18,896 --> 00:17:21,830 for they point like beckoning fingers to the formation, 225 00:17:21,899 --> 00:17:25,638 signposts in the sky for the enemy to spot us. 226 00:17:33,644 --> 00:17:35,745 For these bombers to accomplish their mission, 227 00:17:35,814 --> 00:17:37,082 a plan is needed, 228 00:17:38,417 --> 00:17:40,653 carefully worked out, timed to the minute. 229 00:17:41,486 --> 00:17:43,352 The job is to bomb Wilhelmshaven 230 00:17:43,421 --> 00:17:45,588 effectively and economically. 231 00:17:45,657 --> 00:17:47,758 The enemy is strong, skillful, 232 00:17:47,827 --> 00:17:49,261 determined to stop us. 233 00:17:49,990 --> 00:17:51,894 Here are his defenses: 234 00:17:51,963 --> 00:17:54,763 airdromes, well dispersed. 235 00:17:54,832 --> 00:17:58,270 Each plane indicates a Staffel or squadron of fighters. 236 00:17:59,170 --> 00:18:00,903 Heavy anti-aircraft, 237 00:18:00,972 --> 00:18:04,407 highly trained and accurate all along the coast 238 00:18:04,476 --> 00:18:06,679 and defending his vital installations, 239 00:18:07,512 --> 00:18:09,510 radar to warn him of our coming. 240 00:18:11,015 --> 00:18:13,449 Here is our plan to divide his defenses 241 00:18:13,518 --> 00:18:14,854 and weaken his opposition. 242 00:18:15,954 --> 00:18:18,954 At 13:30 hours, shortly after takeoff, 243 00:18:19,023 --> 00:18:21,457 six groups of planes will be heading toward the enemy coast 244 00:18:21,526 --> 00:18:23,725 from six directions. 245 00:18:23,794 --> 00:18:27,867 The Blue Force, 100 B-24 Liberator four-engine bombers, 246 00:18:28,967 --> 00:18:33,736 the White Force, 300 B-17 Flying Fortresses, 247 00:18:33,805 --> 00:18:38,641 the Green Force, 300 B-17s with an escort of six squadrons 248 00:18:38,710 --> 00:18:40,513 of P-47 Thunderbolts, 249 00:18:41,512 --> 00:18:43,645 a force of B-26 Marauders, 250 00:18:43,714 --> 00:18:45,409 twin engine medium bombers 251 00:18:45,478 --> 00:18:48,418 with six squadrons of RAF Spitfires escorting, 252 00:18:48,487 --> 00:18:53,089 almost 1,000 planes and over 8,000 men in the air. 253 00:18:53,158 --> 00:18:55,658 The enemy alerts all his airdromes, 254 00:18:55,727 --> 00:18:57,660 but which is our main force? 255 00:18:57,729 --> 00:18:59,461 What are our targets? 256 00:18:59,530 --> 00:19:02,832 Where should the Nazi controllers send their fighters? 257 00:19:02,901 --> 00:19:06,071 It's our job to make them guess and guess wrong. 258 00:19:07,239 --> 00:19:09,672 A half hour later at 14:00 hours, 259 00:19:09,741 --> 00:19:12,775 the Blue Force will be heading east across the North Sea 260 00:19:12,844 --> 00:19:14,414 with the White Force following. 261 00:19:15,413 --> 00:19:17,480 These enemy fighters are tied down, 262 00:19:17,549 --> 00:19:18,681 waiting to meet them, 263 00:19:18,750 --> 00:19:21,116 and will not be able to attack the Green Force. 264 00:19:21,185 --> 00:19:24,019 These fighters must come up to attack the Green Force 265 00:19:24,088 --> 00:19:26,926 and thus will be no threat to the Blue and White Forces. 266 00:19:28,092 --> 00:19:31,360 The B-26s and Spitfires will bomb and strafe 267 00:19:31,429 --> 00:19:33,029 a key rail junction, 268 00:19:33,098 --> 00:19:35,164 diverting these six Staffel 269 00:19:35,233 --> 00:19:37,466 and preventing the enemy from concentrating 270 00:19:37,535 --> 00:19:39,696 too many fighters on the Green Force, 271 00:19:39,765 --> 00:19:43,443 which is scheduled to bomb an aircraft factory at Hanover. 272 00:19:47,279 --> 00:19:50,213 At 14:30 hours the Blue Force will threaten 273 00:19:50,282 --> 00:19:53,786 this entire coastal area of Northwestern Germany. 274 00:19:56,088 --> 00:19:57,390 Which target will it be? 275 00:19:58,457 --> 00:19:59,258 Flensburg? 276 00:20:00,291 --> 00:20:01,394 The Kiel Canal? 277 00:20:02,593 --> 00:20:05,161 Or will it turn suddenly and bomb Hamburg, 278 00:20:05,230 --> 00:20:07,396 Vegesack or Emden? 279 00:20:07,465 --> 00:20:10,166 Actually, it carries no bombs at all. 280 00:20:10,235 --> 00:20:11,567 It's a decoy 281 00:20:11,636 --> 00:20:14,036 and keeps the fighters from the northern area busy 282 00:20:14,105 --> 00:20:16,372 while the White Force, the main effort, 283 00:20:16,441 --> 00:20:18,639 heads for the submarine pens of Wilhelmshaven. 284 00:20:20,478 --> 00:20:22,245 At 15:00 hours, 285 00:20:22,314 --> 00:20:24,914 while the White Force is over its target, 286 00:20:24,983 --> 00:20:26,582 only a fraction of the available 287 00:20:26,651 --> 00:20:29,322 German fighter strength of the area can intercept it 288 00:20:30,655 --> 00:20:32,492 because of the Blue Force diversion 289 00:20:33,819 --> 00:20:36,829 and the simultaneous bombing of Hanover by the Green Force. 290 00:20:38,830 --> 00:20:41,000 This is the plan of battle for today, 291 00:20:42,299 --> 00:20:44,637 drawn up by the Combined Operations Planning Committee 292 00:20:45,670 --> 00:20:47,440 and approved by the commanding general. 293 00:20:49,441 --> 00:20:53,012 The White Force, lead group, low squadron. 294 00:20:54,278 --> 00:20:57,413 We've crossed the invisible line of enemy radar. 295 00:20:57,482 --> 00:20:59,184 The Hun is expecting us. 296 00:21:00,180 --> 00:21:03,523 (airplane engines roar) 297 00:21:07,793 --> 00:21:09,725 Steel helmets go on. 298 00:21:09,794 --> 00:21:12,794 Watchful eyes strain. 299 00:21:12,863 --> 00:21:15,034 Tight formations are held tighter still. 300 00:21:16,701 --> 00:21:19,839 Tense gunners more alert because here it comes, 301 00:21:22,473 --> 00:21:23,643 the enemy coast. 302 00:21:27,712 --> 00:21:29,812 From up here it looks the same as any other, 303 00:21:29,881 --> 00:21:30,980 houses, roads, 304 00:21:31,049 --> 00:21:33,353 green fields, factories, waterways, 305 00:21:34,319 --> 00:21:35,784 but they are the houses and fields 306 00:21:35,853 --> 00:21:38,254 of those who invade and oppress. 307 00:21:38,323 --> 00:21:40,656 They are the factories and roads of the people 308 00:21:40,725 --> 00:21:42,992 who twice in one generation have 309 00:21:43,061 --> 00:21:45,161 flooded the world with suffering, 310 00:21:45,230 --> 00:21:46,495 suffering in such quantity 311 00:21:46,564 --> 00:21:49,068 as the history of the human race has never known, 312 00:21:50,501 --> 00:21:53,669 brought torment and anguish into countless American homes, 313 00:21:53,738 --> 00:21:57,577 gold stars and telegrams from the War Department. 314 00:22:02,081 --> 00:22:03,279 (exploding shells bang) 315 00:22:03,348 --> 00:22:05,816 The first flak, just harmless-looking 316 00:22:05,885 --> 00:22:07,850 silent puffs of smoke, 317 00:22:07,919 --> 00:22:09,852 only each puff is a shell exploding, 318 00:22:09,921 --> 00:22:11,752 throwing shrapnel around the sky, 319 00:22:13,225 --> 00:22:14,623 exactly the range, 320 00:22:14,692 --> 00:22:17,192 accurate flak by radio prediction. 321 00:22:17,261 --> 00:22:19,495 Five miles down, Nazi anti-aircraft batteries have 322 00:22:19,564 --> 00:22:22,198 calculated the altitude speed and course. 323 00:22:22,267 --> 00:22:23,867 Where will the next one hit? 324 00:22:23,936 --> 00:22:25,270 You try not to be there. 325 00:22:28,540 --> 00:22:31,944 (exploding shells bang) 326 00:22:33,077 --> 00:22:35,979 The docks and submarine pens of Wilhelmshaven. 327 00:22:36,048 --> 00:22:38,147 Approach to the target starts. 328 00:22:38,216 --> 00:22:40,119 No smokescreen can protect it. 329 00:22:42,254 --> 00:22:45,625 (exploding shells bang) 330 00:22:46,791 --> 00:22:48,557 Now the enemy knows the path of your approach 331 00:22:48,626 --> 00:22:51,194 and walls that path with a flak barrage, 332 00:22:51,263 --> 00:22:53,061 but you fly right through it, 333 00:22:53,130 --> 00:22:55,435 flak so thick you can get out and walk on it. 334 00:22:59,804 --> 00:23:03,242 (exploding shells bang) 335 00:23:05,643 --> 00:23:07,909 Morgan changes course every 15 seconds, 336 00:23:07,978 --> 00:23:10,315 evasive action to confuse the flak batteries. 337 00:23:12,817 --> 00:23:15,551 Bomb site set for correct altitude and speed. 338 00:23:15,620 --> 00:23:17,248 Bomb bay doors open. 339 00:23:17,317 --> 00:23:18,819 The bombing run begins. 340 00:23:21,158 --> 00:23:23,824 Pilot to Bombardier, okay, Vin, you've got it. 341 00:23:26,098 --> 00:23:27,763 Now Evans flies the Memphis Belle, 342 00:23:27,832 --> 00:23:30,266 controlling it through the bomb site. 343 00:23:30,335 --> 00:23:32,137 And now we are most vulnerable. 344 00:23:33,138 --> 00:23:34,270 Committed to our bombing run, 345 00:23:34,339 --> 00:23:36,940 we can't dodge flak or fighters. 346 00:23:37,009 --> 00:23:38,407 Here's the first. 347 00:23:38,476 --> 00:23:41,347 (gunfire rattles) 348 00:23:42,814 --> 00:23:46,319 (airplane engines whine) 349 00:23:47,853 --> 00:23:49,188 Top turret fires at it. 350 00:23:50,855 --> 00:23:52,621 Evans must ignore the battle, 351 00:23:52,690 --> 00:23:54,623 crosshairs lined up on target, 352 00:23:54,692 --> 00:23:56,362 adjustments for wind drift made. 353 00:23:57,862 --> 00:23:59,963 Two more fighters diving from nine o'clock. 354 00:24:00,032 --> 00:24:03,466 (gunfire rattles) 355 00:24:03,535 --> 00:24:05,170 Flak now has the range too. 356 00:24:06,299 --> 00:24:08,939 (explosion bangs) 357 00:24:09,008 --> 00:24:10,106 They've hit this Fort, 358 00:24:10,175 --> 00:24:11,844 but he keeps on his bombing run. 359 00:24:18,216 --> 00:24:20,650 As lead Bombardier, Evans' aim must be good. 360 00:24:20,719 --> 00:24:22,651 Every other ship in the group will drop its bombs 361 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:23,989 when he drops his. 362 00:24:25,890 --> 00:24:28,158 Now one pointer on the bomb site moves toward 363 00:24:28,227 --> 00:24:30,160 another stationary pointer. 364 00:24:30,229 --> 00:24:33,065 The instant they touch, bombs will release. 365 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,571 (airplane engine roars) 366 00:24:47,579 --> 00:24:48,514 They touch, 367 00:24:50,415 --> 00:24:51,417 bombs away. 368 00:24:53,252 --> 00:24:56,589 (exploding bombs bang) 369 00:25:07,099 --> 00:25:10,403 (airplane engine hums) 370 00:25:15,740 --> 00:25:19,078 (exploding bombs bang) 371 00:25:22,447 --> 00:25:26,786 (airplane engine continues to hum) 372 00:25:52,644 --> 00:25:56,512 (exploding bombs bang) 373 00:25:56,581 --> 00:25:59,916 The first half of the mission is over, the easy half. 374 00:25:59,985 --> 00:26:02,322 Now to get home. 375 00:26:08,459 --> 00:26:09,758 The flak stops. 376 00:26:09,827 --> 00:26:12,332 That means fighters out there somewhere. 377 00:26:13,431 --> 00:26:15,431 Are Staffel lurking behind that cloud, 378 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:17,600 or hiding up in the sun where the glare blinds you 379 00:26:17,669 --> 00:26:21,104 and you can't see them waiting to dive down on you? 380 00:26:21,173 --> 00:26:22,772 Fighters at six o'clock. 381 00:26:22,841 --> 00:26:25,608 This is what a gunner sees, a speck in the sky. 382 00:26:25,677 --> 00:26:27,410 That's a fighter, and then a blink. 383 00:26:27,479 --> 00:26:28,779 That means he's firing at you, 384 00:26:28,848 --> 00:26:30,546 2,300 rounds a minute. 385 00:26:30,615 --> 00:26:33,519 (gunfire rattles) 386 00:26:34,453 --> 00:26:36,119 (airplane engine roars) 387 00:26:36,188 --> 00:26:37,586 (gunfire rattles) 388 00:26:37,655 --> 00:26:39,082 In a running battle, 389 00:26:39,151 --> 00:26:41,090 one of the most important instruments is the interphone. 390 00:26:41,159 --> 00:26:45,428 (gunfire continues to rattle) 391 00:26:45,497 --> 00:26:47,563 - [Crew] There's four of 'em, one o'clock high, 392 00:26:47,632 --> 00:26:48,631 they're coming around. 393 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:51,637 (gunfire rattles) 394 00:26:55,039 --> 00:26:57,973 Two fighters, six o'clock up coming in, firing at you. 395 00:26:58,042 --> 00:27:00,143 - [Crew] B-17 in trouble our two o'clock, 396 00:27:00,212 --> 00:27:01,577 watch it. 397 00:27:01,646 --> 00:27:03,312 - [Crew] Got an engine on fire. 398 00:27:03,381 --> 00:27:06,218 (gunfire rattles) 399 00:27:09,048 --> 00:27:10,486 - [Crew] There's two more, diving through the 94th. 400 00:27:10,555 --> 00:27:13,089 - [Crew] Three planes, nine o'clock, coming around. 401 00:27:13,158 --> 00:27:14,290 Keep your eye on 'em, boys. 402 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,593 (gunfire rattles) 403 00:27:17,662 --> 00:27:18,927 - [Crew] Firing at 10. 404 00:27:18,996 --> 00:27:20,296 - [Crew] Watch 'em, Chuck, keep your eyes open. 405 00:27:20,365 --> 00:27:21,664 - [Crew] They're breaking at 11, breaking at 11. 406 00:27:21,733 --> 00:27:23,126 (gunfire rattles) 407 00:27:23,195 --> 00:27:25,668 - [Crew] There we go at two o'clock, watch 'em, Scottie. 408 00:27:25,737 --> 00:27:27,836 - [Scottie] I got my sights on 'em. 409 00:27:27,905 --> 00:27:30,272 - [Crew 3] Check that B-17, Chuck, at three o'clock. 410 00:27:30,341 --> 00:27:31,174 The motor's smoking. 411 00:27:31,243 --> 00:27:32,674 Fighter at 10:30, coming around. 412 00:27:32,743 --> 00:27:34,643 - [Crew] Are those 10:30 upper or lower? 413 00:27:34,712 --> 00:27:37,583 (gunfire rattles) 414 00:27:39,917 --> 00:27:43,756 - [Crew] B-17 out of control at three o'clock. 415 00:27:46,924 --> 00:27:49,991 - [Crew] Come on you guys, get out of that plane, bail out. 416 00:27:50,060 --> 00:27:52,194 There's one, he come out of the bomb bay. 417 00:27:52,263 --> 00:27:53,463 - [Crew] Yeah, I see 'em. 418 00:27:53,532 --> 00:27:55,067 - [Crew] There's the tail gunner coming out. 419 00:27:59,604 --> 00:28:02,204 - [Crew] Watch out for fighters. 420 00:28:02,273 --> 00:28:03,539 - [Crew] See any parachutes, Quinlan? 421 00:28:03,608 --> 00:28:05,244 - [Crew] Flak at nine o'clock. 422 00:28:06,278 --> 00:28:07,810 - [Crew] Eight men still in that B-17. 423 00:28:07,879 --> 00:28:09,845 Come on, get out of there. - [Crew] Come on, bail out. 424 00:28:09,914 --> 00:28:11,882 - [Crew] There's three more 'chutes. 425 00:28:11,951 --> 00:28:14,184 - [Crew] Flak at 11 o'clock. 426 00:28:14,253 --> 00:28:16,185 (airplane engines roar) 427 00:28:16,254 --> 00:28:21,260 - [Crew] 109 at three o'clock. 428 00:28:22,294 --> 00:28:23,359 - [Crew] Come on, you son of a bitch. 429 00:28:23,428 --> 00:28:26,298 (gunfire rattles) 430 00:28:31,971 --> 00:28:32,869 - [Crew] He got him, chief. 431 00:28:32,938 --> 00:28:34,069 Look, he's bailing out. 432 00:28:34,138 --> 00:28:36,405 - [Crew] Damn it, don't yell on that intercom. 433 00:28:36,474 --> 00:28:37,907 - [Crew] Fighters, 10 o'clock. 434 00:28:37,976 --> 00:28:39,375 - [Crew] Watch those two, they're coming in. 435 00:28:39,444 --> 00:28:40,910 - [Crew] They're coming in. 436 00:28:40,979 --> 00:28:43,079 - [Crew] Let's get that ball turret on them. 437 00:28:43,148 --> 00:28:46,549 (gunfire rattles) 438 00:28:46,618 --> 00:28:49,585 - [Crew] Save the ammunition as much as possible. 439 00:28:49,654 --> 00:28:52,592 (gunfire rattles) 440 00:28:54,959 --> 00:28:56,760 - [Crew] Watch that fighter coming in at three o'clock. 441 00:28:56,829 --> 00:29:00,396 (airplane engine roars) 442 00:29:00,465 --> 00:29:02,365 (gunfire rattles) 443 00:29:02,434 --> 00:29:03,766 - [Crew] He's coming in on a half roll. 444 00:29:03,835 --> 00:29:04,600 Pull her up, chief. 445 00:29:04,669 --> 00:29:05,769 Pull her up, hurry. 446 00:29:05,838 --> 00:29:08,674 (gunfire rattles) 447 00:29:10,008 --> 00:29:11,740 - [Narrator] This Fortress is hurt, 448 00:29:11,809 --> 00:29:14,710 engine on fire, losing airspeed and altitude, 449 00:29:14,779 --> 00:29:19,115 drifting into the flak alone and helpless, a straggler. 450 00:29:19,184 --> 00:29:20,783 In a minute, Nazi fighters will swarm in 451 00:29:20,852 --> 00:29:22,355 like buzzards for the kill. 452 00:29:23,521 --> 00:29:26,556 You can watch, but you can't go down to help. 453 00:29:26,625 --> 00:29:27,860 You keep your formation. 454 00:29:33,132 --> 00:29:34,130 (pensive music plays) 455 00:29:34,199 --> 00:29:36,727 Here too, the mission is being flown, 456 00:29:36,796 --> 00:29:38,100 none the less real for being 457 00:29:38,169 --> 00:29:40,540 in the minds and hearts of these men behind. 458 00:29:41,706 --> 00:29:43,806 Ask anybody who's been to a field in England 459 00:29:43,875 --> 00:29:46,141 or anywhere else our bombers are based, 460 00:29:46,210 --> 00:29:48,648 and he'll tell you that there's drama here too, 461 00:29:49,547 --> 00:29:52,212 waiting to see who's coming back. 462 00:29:53,318 --> 00:29:55,484 To watch them, you might not realize 463 00:29:55,553 --> 00:29:58,154 how tense these ground crews are, 464 00:29:58,223 --> 00:29:59,616 but they are tense 465 00:29:59,685 --> 00:30:00,660 and plenty worried. 466 00:30:02,893 --> 00:30:04,755 In Air Force talk, this waiting is known 467 00:30:04,824 --> 00:30:06,699 as sweating out the mission. 468 00:30:07,565 --> 00:30:09,832 These men know the flight plan. 469 00:30:09,901 --> 00:30:11,662 Their watches told them when the bombers were 470 00:30:11,731 --> 00:30:13,602 running into enemy flak, 471 00:30:13,671 --> 00:30:15,504 when they were over the target, 472 00:30:15,573 --> 00:30:17,801 when they left the enemy coast 473 00:30:17,870 --> 00:30:19,608 and now their watches tell them 474 00:30:19,677 --> 00:30:21,581 the bombers should be nearing the field. 475 00:30:22,913 --> 00:30:25,184 Every ear strains for the first sound of the engines 476 00:30:26,418 --> 00:30:27,887 and then somebody hears them 477 00:30:28,919 --> 00:30:30,686 and somebody sees the first faint specks 478 00:30:30,755 --> 00:30:32,621 in the distance sky. 479 00:30:32,690 --> 00:30:36,256 (pensive music continues) 480 00:30:37,262 --> 00:30:38,898 Every face turns to see 481 00:30:40,099 --> 00:30:40,933 and count. 482 00:30:43,435 --> 00:30:45,938 The watchers try to read the numbers on the ships. 483 00:30:48,273 --> 00:30:51,034 These planes have priority to land first. 484 00:30:51,103 --> 00:30:53,446 The colored flares mean wounded aboard. 485 00:30:54,613 --> 00:30:56,212 In the hospital window, 486 00:30:56,281 --> 00:30:58,384 these watching men know what that means. 487 00:30:59,451 --> 00:31:00,716 They know what it feels like to lie 488 00:31:00,785 --> 00:31:04,487 on a bouncing Fortress floor for hundreds of miles 489 00:31:04,556 --> 00:31:06,823 through the frozen stratosphere, 490 00:31:06,892 --> 00:31:08,524 in great pain, 491 00:31:08,593 --> 00:31:10,827 with the other men in your crew fighting to keep you alive 492 00:31:10,896 --> 00:31:12,131 until they hit the field. 493 00:31:13,799 --> 00:31:14,600 The field, 494 00:31:15,801 --> 00:31:16,636 home. 495 00:31:17,635 --> 00:31:18,638 It'll be okay then 496 00:31:19,738 --> 00:31:22,538 because there'll be medical care, the best, 497 00:31:22,607 --> 00:31:25,110 as soon as the wheels of your plane stop rolling. 498 00:31:28,579 --> 00:31:31,150 (engines hum) 499 00:31:32,150 --> 00:31:35,655 (pensive music continues) 500 00:31:38,123 --> 00:31:39,825 Head wound, concussion. 501 00:31:43,494 --> 00:31:45,261 20 millimeter cannon shell exploded 502 00:31:45,330 --> 00:31:46,666 in his radio compartment. 503 00:31:47,665 --> 00:31:50,503 Shock, internal injuries. 504 00:31:51,836 --> 00:31:53,334 He'll be all right, though. 505 00:31:55,006 --> 00:31:57,706 Flak bursts scattered flying shrapnel. 506 00:31:57,775 --> 00:31:59,479 He's full of steel splinters. 507 00:32:01,612 --> 00:32:04,446 This pilot's leg is not a pretty sight. 508 00:32:04,515 --> 00:32:06,852 Neither are the docks at Wilhelmshaven. 509 00:32:09,182 --> 00:32:11,156 These men will all get the Purple Heart 510 00:32:13,358 --> 00:32:16,161 and this man too, posthumously. 511 00:32:22,833 --> 00:32:25,037 A transfusion right in the plane. 512 00:32:27,339 --> 00:32:29,472 This gunner's too weak to be moved. 513 00:32:29,541 --> 00:32:33,142 The new, life-giving blood flowing into his veins 514 00:32:33,211 --> 00:32:36,312 might be the blood of a high school girl in Des Moines, 515 00:32:36,381 --> 00:32:40,082 a miner in Alabama, a movie star in Hollywood, 516 00:32:40,151 --> 00:32:41,554 or it might be your blood. 517 00:32:42,487 --> 00:32:44,724 Whosever it is, thanks. 518 00:32:47,226 --> 00:32:49,325 (airplane engines hum) 519 00:32:49,394 --> 00:32:52,294 36 planes left this field this morning. 520 00:32:52,363 --> 00:32:53,629 Now six more arrive. 521 00:32:53,698 --> 00:32:55,298 That makes 20 home 522 00:32:55,367 --> 00:32:56,569 and this one's 21, 523 00:32:57,568 --> 00:32:58,704 more wounded aboard. 524 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:03,242 (airplane engine hums) 525 00:33:08,012 --> 00:33:11,584 22, coming in with his left inboard engine dead. 526 00:33:12,885 --> 00:33:16,188 (airplane engine hums) 527 00:33:17,589 --> 00:33:21,260 23, with a feathered prop on his left outboard engine. 528 00:33:23,528 --> 00:33:27,428 24, Southern Comfort, with a chunk of tail gone. 529 00:33:28,933 --> 00:33:31,871 25, they flew home on their luck. 530 00:33:33,606 --> 00:33:34,607 26, 531 00:33:36,241 --> 00:33:37,276 not a scratch. 532 00:33:40,211 --> 00:33:42,678 The control tower learns that two more landed 533 00:33:42,747 --> 00:33:45,009 at a British field to the south, 534 00:33:45,078 --> 00:33:47,850 one a crash landing, crew safe. 535 00:33:47,919 --> 00:33:48,788 That makes 28. 536 00:33:50,788 --> 00:33:55,225 29, a rough landing but her pilot's badly hurt. 537 00:33:55,294 --> 00:33:57,397 It's a wonder he brought her back at all. 538 00:34:00,299 --> 00:34:03,302 29 planes back so far, 539 00:34:04,602 --> 00:34:06,406 29 out of 36. 540 00:34:07,907 --> 00:34:09,274 Our losses were heavy, 541 00:34:10,308 --> 00:34:12,244 but the enemy's were far heavier. 542 00:34:13,311 --> 00:34:15,378 We destroyed a German aircraft factory, 543 00:34:15,447 --> 00:34:17,746 a rail junction, submarine pens, 544 00:34:17,815 --> 00:34:19,748 docks and harbor installations. 545 00:34:19,817 --> 00:34:22,218 That's specific, known damage, 546 00:34:22,287 --> 00:34:24,587 but who can tell the number of German torpedoes 547 00:34:24,656 --> 00:34:26,388 that will not be fired, 548 00:34:26,457 --> 00:34:28,891 the number of our convoys that will get through now, 549 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,860 the soldiers' and seamens' lives that will be saved 550 00:34:31,929 --> 00:34:34,430 or the battles that will be won instead of lost 551 00:34:34,499 --> 00:34:37,867 because of what these bombers and airmen did today? 552 00:34:37,936 --> 00:34:41,106 (heroic music plays) 553 00:34:48,347 --> 00:34:50,315 Pilot and tail gunner, 554 00:34:51,182 --> 00:34:52,352 they can laugh now. 555 00:34:54,152 --> 00:34:56,285 Fire on the inboard engine did this. 556 00:34:56,354 --> 00:34:59,024 Flames streaked back and burned the stabilizer tool. 557 00:35:01,026 --> 00:35:03,459 Another crew luck brought back. 558 00:35:03,528 --> 00:35:07,032 (heroic music continues) 559 00:35:18,009 --> 00:35:19,144 Here's Old Bill, 560 00:35:21,011 --> 00:35:22,979 a pretty good airplane when it took off, 561 00:35:23,048 --> 00:35:24,914 lost its nose, 562 00:35:24,983 --> 00:35:26,783 lost its navigator, 563 00:35:26,852 --> 00:35:28,053 bombardier wounded, 564 00:35:28,886 --> 00:35:31,056 top turret gunner and pilot hit, 565 00:35:32,223 --> 00:35:35,861 hydraulic system shot out, no brakes, no flaps, 566 00:35:36,728 --> 00:35:38,364 but Old Bill came back. 567 00:35:46,571 --> 00:35:49,172 Now among the returned crew members 568 00:35:49,241 --> 00:35:51,607 talk flows like a river, 569 00:35:51,676 --> 00:35:53,746 talking out every detail of the mission. 570 00:35:54,746 --> 00:35:56,749 These are the faces of combat, 571 00:35:58,082 --> 00:36:00,753 faces of Americans who have watched their comrades die, 572 00:36:01,853 --> 00:36:03,756 faces that can never forget the enemy, 573 00:36:05,089 --> 00:36:07,259 and they are in no mood to have their picture taken. 574 00:36:12,229 --> 00:36:15,067 In the control tower, Colonel Ray, Group CO, 575 00:36:15,867 --> 00:36:17,466 is still watching and waiting. 576 00:36:17,535 --> 00:36:18,834 (heroic music plays) 577 00:36:18,903 --> 00:36:21,774 And he spots the last flight, three more planes 578 00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:25,411 and one of them is the ship everyone has been pulling for, 579 00:36:29,114 --> 00:36:30,082 the Memphis Belle. 580 00:36:32,950 --> 00:36:35,517 The last few miles of this trip have been a joy ride. 581 00:36:35,586 --> 00:36:37,053 The strain is over. 582 00:36:37,122 --> 00:36:39,020 They can leave their guns now. 583 00:36:39,089 --> 00:36:41,157 Now they know they're going to go home, 584 00:36:41,226 --> 00:36:43,526 to Spokane, Green Bay, Asheville, 585 00:36:43,595 --> 00:36:45,056 Detroit, Chicago, 586 00:36:45,125 --> 00:36:46,766 Fort Worth and Yonkers. 587 00:36:50,435 --> 00:36:53,736 (airplane engine hums) 588 00:36:53,805 --> 00:36:56,239 The Belle comes in for her landing 589 00:36:56,308 --> 00:36:58,841 but first Morgan buzzes the field, 590 00:36:58,910 --> 00:37:01,113 cuts the grass with a giant Fortress. 591 00:37:02,446 --> 00:37:05,882 It's against the rules, but this is a special occasion. 592 00:37:05,951 --> 00:37:09,322 (airplane engine roars) 593 00:37:14,159 --> 00:37:17,658 (suspenseful music plays) 594 00:37:36,015 --> 00:37:39,076 (braking wheels squeak) 595 00:37:39,145 --> 00:37:40,244 (joyous music plays) 596 00:37:40,313 --> 00:37:41,751 The wheels of the Memphis Belle 597 00:37:41,820 --> 00:37:44,790 come back to the soil of England for the 25th time. 598 00:37:46,186 --> 00:37:49,690 (joyous music continues) 599 00:38:19,658 --> 00:38:23,062 (joyous music continues) 600 00:38:43,415 --> 00:38:45,418 This is a day they will never forget. 601 00:38:51,256 --> 00:38:53,155 Another great day soon after, 602 00:38:53,224 --> 00:38:55,595 Brigadier General Hansell visited the field 603 00:38:56,928 --> 00:38:58,862 and presented the Distinguished Flying Cross 604 00:38:58,931 --> 00:39:00,433 to every member of the crew. 605 00:39:04,937 --> 00:39:07,768 (car engine hums) 606 00:39:10,608 --> 00:39:12,277 And then there was another day. 607 00:39:13,112 --> 00:39:16,281 (military drum rolls) 608 00:39:22,454 --> 00:39:25,786 (majestic music plays) 609 00:39:34,733 --> 00:39:37,437 Their Majesties, the King and Queen of England. 610 00:39:39,470 --> 00:39:43,142 (majestic music continues) 611 00:40:05,129 --> 00:40:06,929 Johnny Quinlan never thought anything like this 612 00:40:06,998 --> 00:40:09,001 would happen to him when he left Yonkers. 613 00:40:16,841 --> 00:40:18,607 The ground crew were a little self-conscious 614 00:40:18,676 --> 00:40:20,743 about being dressed in fatigues, 615 00:40:20,812 --> 00:40:22,982 but the Queen thought they were very nice. 616 00:40:30,688 --> 00:40:31,554 (military drum roll plays) 617 00:40:31,623 --> 00:40:33,956 Finally, two more visitors came. 618 00:40:34,025 --> 00:40:36,792 General Eaker, commanding the 8th Air Force, 619 00:40:36,861 --> 00:40:40,563 and General Devers, US Commander of the European Theatre. 620 00:40:40,632 --> 00:40:43,799 The Belle crew received them in flying clothes 621 00:40:43,868 --> 00:40:45,300 as General Eaker read the order 622 00:40:45,369 --> 00:40:48,474 for what he called their 26th and most important mission, 623 00:40:49,541 --> 00:40:51,574 return to America to train new crews 624 00:40:51,643 --> 00:40:54,109 and to tell the people what we're doing here, 625 00:40:54,178 --> 00:40:56,312 to thank them for their help and support 626 00:40:56,381 --> 00:40:57,647 and tell them to keep it up 627 00:40:57,716 --> 00:40:59,482 so we can keep it up, 628 00:40:59,551 --> 00:41:03,486 so we can bomb the enemy again and again and again 629 00:41:03,555 --> 00:41:04,724 until he has had enough. 630 00:41:06,358 --> 00:41:07,827 And then we can all come home. 631 00:41:08,727 --> 00:41:12,164 (triumphant music plays) 632 00:41:20,572 --> 00:41:23,904 (airplane engine roars) 633 00:41:29,914 --> 00:41:33,753 (triumphant music continues) 634 00:41:36,255 --> 00:41:39,692 (airplane engines roar) 635 00:41:46,264 --> 00:41:48,364 To the men of the 8th Air Force 636 00:41:48,433 --> 00:41:51,167 who are now flying deep into Germany, 637 00:41:51,236 --> 00:41:53,002 bringing destruction to targets 638 00:41:53,071 --> 00:41:56,039 almost 1,000 miles from their bases, 639 00:41:56,108 --> 00:41:57,777 destruction like this, 640 00:41:59,944 --> 00:42:02,782 and who have never once been turned back by the enemy, 641 00:42:03,915 --> 00:42:07,252 to those men, this film is gratefully dedicated. 642 00:42:15,143 --> 00:42:18,146 (serene music plays) 643 00:42:47,509 --> 00:42:50,913 (serene music continues) 644 00:43:21,409 --> 00:43:24,913 (serene music continues) 645 00:43:55,977 --> 00:43:59,481 (serene music continues) 646 00:44:31,145 --> 00:44:34,649 (serene music continues) 647 00:45:05,347 --> 00:45:08,316 (no audio present) 44949

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