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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 45 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Ron Powers. |
| Summary |
As a young man growing up in Asheville, North Carolina, Robert Morgan was a fast-driving party boya hell-raiser. But when his mother committed suicide upon learning she had inoperable brain cancer, Morgan's life changed dramatically. He was no longer a carefree playboy; he was a man searching for meaning. He found that meaning at the controls of an airplane, and in the flak-and fighter-filled skies over Occupied France and Nazi Germany. The plane was a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Morgan named her the Memphis Belle in honor of his fiance, a Memphis beauty named Margaret Polk. He and his crew flew 25 successful daylight missions over Europe in the Belle, and were immortalized by Hollywood director William Wyler in a 1944 documentary called The Memphis Belle. In those 25 harrowing missions, Morgan never lost a crew member. The only casualty associated with the Belle was Morgan's engagement to the plane's namesake; it simply couldn't survive the War Department's publicity demands. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Morgan, Robert, 1918-
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Memphis Belle (B-17 bomber)
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Bomber pilots -- United States -- Biography.
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United States. Army Air Forces -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.
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Powers, Ron.
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McLarty, Ron. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781598878660 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1598878662 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11419154 |
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