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Old 10-11-2007, 11:26 AM   #3 (permalink)
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The most recent film? The 1990 one? From memory, the real Belle's final mission was a fairly straight forward with minimal damage, if any.

She's currently undergoing a total refurbishment for display in the USAFM so she was moved from her home at Mud Island a couple of years ago or thereabouts.

Her pilot, Bob Morgan, died in 2004 (he flew B-29s in the Pacific towards the end of the war). He did name her for a sweetheart in Memphis (Margaret Polk who died in 1990) but didn't end up marrying her. The crew didn't fly in MB every trip and the they actually finished their last trip before the aircraft! The bathing suit of the girl in the noseart was actually blue on the port side and, of course, the script for the noseart is plain when compared to the 1990 movie.

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Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM.
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