Originally Posted by
Box Brownie
rolling20, I rang a close friend, Graham Simons, to find your answer for Memphis Belle. Fifteen hours of footage were taken when making the film. The take off sequence was taken from the ball turret. The guns were removed and it was probably Whyler himself who took the footage, using a 16mm hand held camera. There are two sequences and as the take off was with the turret down, they would have been illegal! One sequence was taken at Bassingbourne and the other, a beat up, at Alconbury / Abbots Ripton. The shots from outside were taken from another B17's
Thank you Box, much appreciated. I often thought they had a car racing alongside,although I always thought that would have been slightly impossible.