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Oldgringo wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2019 9:42 pm I remember landing in Memphis back in the mid-'70s and seeing the B-17, "Memphis Belle", off to the side of the landing runway. No, I didn't ask for a ride.

I don't want to take too much away from the primary story, it is indeed a heartbreaking loss. However, the Memphis Belle was allowed by the City of Memphis to deteriorate pretty badly. It was "repossessed" some time back by the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, and subsequently restored. It will never fly again, but it will be kept in proper order for the untold thousands who visit that museum each year.