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This is, quite simply, one of the best wartime documentaries shot during WWII. It chronicles the 25th mission of ‘The Memphis Belle” a B-17 and its crew that flew early in the air war over Europe when losses were staggering and survival of men and machines was doubtful over a 25-mission tour. Shot by William Wyler, the film is in stout color, great of it shot in combat conditions over Europe. The narration is good.
This is not a very long film, but it is a must for anyone keen in the air war. I highly recommend another documentary to better understand the air war if you be pleased ‘Memphis Belle’. It is called “Pistol Packing Mama: The Missions of a B-17″, also available through Amazon.com. Taken together, these two videos will give the general viewer an advantageous concept of the dangers of flying early in the war and of the resiliency and courage of the crews.
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Do not examine the camera work to be aloof in the aerial combat sequences. Remember that the plane was shuddering with the recoil of its guns and also under instense fire. Also, the cameraman was probably having second thoughts about coming along on the mission at all! To me, the camera work only intensifies the drama of the battle.
Highly recommended. Not to be confused with the Hollywood version of 1990, with the same title. This is fact, that one is historical fiction. Both are worth your time.
This wartime documentary celebrates the successful return of the B-17 bomber Memphis Belle, named after pilot Robert Morgan’s girlfriend, from its twenty-fifth and final bombing mission over German soil, but it also makes positive the fact that this was only one of many such planes filled with courageous young men prepared to die for their country and for freedom. Director William Wyler basically takes the viewer through a typical day in the lives of the American men serving at an undisclosed air nasty in Britain. Ground crewmen prepare the B-17s for flight and load the bombs they will topple, pilots and crew receive their briefing on the mission ahead, death is delivered to the German homeland in the build of fire from the sky, and the pilots bring their bombers home – if they can. The bravery of the ten men who served onboard each B-17 bomber is beyond question; while these fabulous airplanes earned the good to be called flying fortresses, each mission bordered on the suicidal. The bomber was a immense and boring yet deadly aircraft; the pilots had to have formation and concentrate on dropping their bombs amidst anti-aircraft fire from the ground, the pursuit and attack of distinguished quicker German fighters, and constant bursts of flak all over the sky; with no fighter escort, the gunners stationed atop, gradual, and astride each plane had their hands paunchy trying to shoot down enemy planes. This film, built around precise combat footage taken from 16mm and 35mm onboard cameras, presents a telling and impressively realistic see at the astounding dangers all bomber crewmen faced.
Some command about the propaganda aspects of this film. It is apt that the war in Europe raged on when the film was released by the War Department in April 1944, and it is also upright that Wylie frail footage from several missions as well as some film from a second air combat unit, but the heroism on reveal here rises far above propaganda. To return home from a bombing mission was a slight miracle in and of itself, as can clearly be seen in the extensive pain to both crew and aircraft for many of those that did effect it benefit to the detestable. What makes the Memphis Belle such a fable is the fact that the crew took the plane out on twenty-five bombing runs and returned home each and every time. As the film shows us, this accomplishment earned all ten of the Memphis Belle’s crewmen noted service medals, a visit from the King and Queen of England, and a creep support to the States to relieve bellow future crewmen how to skim the B-17 bombers that continued to expose themselves instrumental in the eventual Allied victory over the Third Reich.
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I might perform mark of the fact that this film is actually in color – not a vibrant sort of color but color nonetheless – and runs a tiny short of forty-five minutes in length. Those with an interest in aerial combat or World War II in general should accumulate mighty to interest them in this inspirational see at the Memphis Belle and the gallant American men who flew her.
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