This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Vince Evans
Himself
Jacob L. Devers
Himself (commander, European theatre)
Ira C. Eaker
Himself (commander, 8th Air Force)
Haywood Hansell
Himself (USAAF)
Robert J. Hanson
Himself (radio operator on The Memphis Belle)
Eugene Kern
Narrator
King George VI of the United Kingdom
Captain Charles B. Leighton
Himself (Navigator on the Memphis Belle)
Harold P. Loch
Himself (Engineer and top turret gunner on The Memphis Belle)
Casimer A. Nastal
Himself ( 19 year-old waist gunner on The Memphis Belle)
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Herself
John P. Quinlan
Cecil H. Scott
Himself (turrett gunner and oldest crew member on The Memphis Belle)
Captain James A. Verinis
Himself (Co-pilot on The Memphis Belle)
Clarence E. Winchell
Himself - waist gunner on The Memphis Belle
Stanley Wray
Himself (group commander)
Arthur Kennedy
(uncredited)
Robert Morgan
Himself (Pilot)
William Wyler
Director, Writer
Jerome Chodorov
Writer
Lester Koenig
Sep 19, 2019
Dec 23, 1948
Feb 25, 2004
Dec 22, 1960
Jan 20, 1962
Apr 24, 1992
Dec 7, 1942
Jul 26, 1943
Dec 7, 2012
May 27, 1942
Sep 29, 1995
May 22, 2025
Mar 31, 2017
Mar 10, 2002
Jan 23, 2015
Apr 6, 2004
First Motion Pictures Unit US Army Air Forces
U.S. Office of War Information
Paramount Pictures
US
United States
English