By Robert Morgan
ISBN-10: 0525946101
ISBN-13: 9780525946106
ISBN-10: 0786518081
ISBN-13: 9780786518081
A hellraiser with a penchant for humming airfields, Bob Morgan fell for a Seattle attractiveness that may hold him throughout the battle in Europe-a four-engined Boeing B-17F Flying castle. After falling in love with Margaret Polk of Memphis, Morgan named his new bomber after her-the Memphis Belle. chief of the 1st bombing team to outlive twenty-five sunlight missions over the flak and fighter-filled skies of Occupied France and Nazi Germany and go back to the united states, Morgan and his aircraft have been made recognized by way of Hollywood movie director William Wyler in his 1944 documentary, The Memphis Belle. the single casualty at the Belle used to be Morgan and Polk's romance-torn aside by means of the warfare Department's exposure needs.Cowritten through a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and coauthor of the number one long island instances bestseller Flags of Our Fathers, the guy Who Flew the Memphis Belle takes readers into the guts of conflict above 20,000 ft. After the Belle, Morgan commanded his personal squadron over the Pacific, top the 1st B-29 raid over Tokyo from the Dauntless Dotty and paving the best way for the Allied victory. a strong chronicle of loyalty, love, and heroism below hearth, this is often an unforgettable memoir of a member of the best iteration who fought America's maximum battles...and of the conflict one guy fought either out and in of the skies.
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Everyone seemed to feel it. America was going to be in this war. I sure felt it. I’d done pretty well in history at Emerson and the U. of Pennsylvania, I could read a map, and I could spot the inevitability as well as anybody. Where was Bob Morgan going to be? That was the question I suddenly could not stop asking myself. I really didn’t want to be in the Navy—I didn’t like ships. Skinny-dipping aside, I couldn’t swim all that well. I didn’t think from the stories I read that I wanted to be in the infantry and crawl around on the ground while people were shooting at me.
He found his own rescuer, a good friend from Boston named Kent Smith, who’d been a schoolmate when they were kids. This friend put up some money, and Dad secured a loan from President Roosevelt’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and the two of them got those furniture-making machines turning again. The hardships we went through changed me for life, and not necessarily for the worse, either. As a little boy I’d thought it was great to live on the Biltmore Estate. But when we lost our money I could see that the really rich folks started to treat Dad in a different way.
Maybe that explained the makes of those shiny black cars in our garage. At any rate, the prospects looked good. Herbert Hoover was President, Dad was making the unheard of salary of $12,000 a year, and it seemed the most natural thing in the world—it seemed ordained in the stars—that we join the Biltmore Forest Country Club. That is where my mother met Cornelia Vanderbilt. After all these years it still seems overwhelming when I think about it—my iristending mom with her piano-roll music and her Camel cigarettes, becoming best friends with a leading light of American society.
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