Brian Sherman's Blog – February 2012 Archive (2)

B-17G "Thunderbird"

I have been interested in World War II history, specificly the European Theater, and even more specificly, the air war, since viewing the movie "Memphis Belle" in 1990. Over the years I have read a lot of great stories about the air war in Europe, including that of the Memphis Belle, but of that I thought was most interesting was that of the B-17G "Thunderbird".

First of all, if you have not seen the movie "Memphis Belle" find it, see it, it is great. The movie follows the first B-17…

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Added by Brian Sherman on February 26, 2012 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments