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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(World War II Aviation) |
| Author: |
Duerksen, Menno |
| Title: |
The Memphis Belle: Home at Last |
| Place: |
Memphis, TN |
| Publisher: |
Castle Books |
| Date: |
[1987] |
| Item # : |
206051 |
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| Sale Number |
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424 |
| Lot Number |
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61 |
| Sale Name |
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| The Library of Roger Wagner |
| Sale Date |
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03/18/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 570 |
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| Description: |
| Illustrated with photo plates. Cloth, jacket. Second Edition. |
| Signed on the title-page by eight crew members of the first B-17 to be detached from combat and sent back to the United States to tour the country in an effort to raise support for the war effort. These are Robert Morgan, Pilot - he was the first American bomber pilot to achieve 25 missions and return to the U.S., later he flew B-29's over Japan; James A. Verinis, the "other pilot"; John P. Quinlan, Tailgunner, the only member of the crew to be wounded - He shot down two Germans from the Belle, and later was in a B-29 which was shot down; Robert Hanson, Radio Operator; Charles B. Leighton, Navigator; Clarence E. "Bill" Winchell, Left Waist Gunner - it was his gun that downed the eighth and last German fighter shot down by the Memphis Belle; Casimir A. Nastal, Right Waist Gunner; and Harold P. Lock, Third Top Turrett/Engineer. |
| Condition: |
| Fine condition. |
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