The iconic B-17 Memphis Belle rolled out of a Wright-Patterson restoration hangar and into the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday evening after years of painstaking work to restore the ...

Once their lumbering bomber had touched down in England, safe after a raid targeting a German submarine base in Lorient, France, crew members climbed out of the Memphis Belle and flashed broad smiles ...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Staring at the B-17, large parts of it nowhere to be seen, big holes in its belly, and little of its original paint, you would never know that this is one of ...

For a decade, Casey Simmons has labored on the B-17 Memphis Belle, bending sheet metal to painting nose art on the iconic World War II plane that defined a generation of airmen flying into danger over ...