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
Lester Koenig
Writer
Jerome Chodorov
Feb 6, 1986
Dec 12, 1963
Nov 22, 1963
Jan 17, 2014
Feb 4, 1980
Sep 24, 1964
Aug 24, 1962
Apr 20, 2000
Sep 15, 1969
Nov 24, 1941
May 27, 1942
Jun 1, 1982
Jun 26, 1962
Jun 25, 1969
Jul 3, 1980
May 22, 2025
First Motion Pictures Unit US Army Air Forces
U.S. Office of War Information
Paramount Pictures
US
United States
English