{"id":60,"date":"2007-03-05T14:27:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T19:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/the-menphis-belle-its-crew\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2007-03-05T19:27:18","slug":"the-menphis-belle-its-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/60\/the-menphis-belle-its-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"The Menphis Belle &#038; Its Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"896db7480f66673a7b164fbcd4905391\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-8134560547846945\";\r\n\/* 468x60 tha *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1487607395\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Early in World War II, the United States 8th Air Force decided to use          its heavy bombers in daytime attacks against occupied Europe. The British          predicted horrible losses during daylight raids. It was not suprising          that the first bomber crew to complete 25 missions would be regarded as          heroes. The crew of the B-17 &#8220;Memphis Belle&#8221; was the first to complete          a combat tour. Between November 7, 1942, and May 17, 1943, the crew flew          missions ranging from 4 to almost 10 hours in duration. For these missions          Capt. Robert K. Morgan and his crew were awarded the <span class=\"link\">Air          Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters<\/span> and the <span class=\"link\">Distinguished          Flying Cross<\/span>. The Memphis Belle and its crew were then returned to          the United States on a morale-building <span class=\"link\">tour          of aircraft plants<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"subhead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/a_people_at_war\/war_in_europe\/articles_war_in_europe\/memphis_belle_crew.html\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"234\" height=\"148\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Captain and crew of the Memphis Belle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/a_people_at_war\/war_in_europe\/images_war_in_europe\/memphis_belle_crew.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehistoricalarchive.com%2Fhappenings%2F60%2Fthe-menphis-belle-its-crew%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in World War II, the United States 8th Air Force decided to use its heavy bombers in daytime attacks against occupied Europe. The British predicted horrible losses during daylight raids. It was not suprising that the first bomber crew to complete 25 missions would be regarded as heroes. The crew of the B-17 &#8220;Memphis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}