Tour offers access to Memphis Belle restoration

By Mitch Stacy

Published June 11, 2012 2:50pm ET

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Tour offers access to Memphis Belle restoration — FILE - This Feb. 23, 2012 file photo shows Casey Simmons checking the engine cowl work at the Memphis Belle restoration at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. The most celebrated American aircraft to emerge from the great war rests these days in a cavernous hangar at a southern Ohio Air Force base undergoing a loving and fastidious restoration _ from its clear plastic nose cone down to the twin .50-caliber machine guns bristling in the tail. (AP Photo/The Dayton Daily News, Ty Greenlees) | Ty Greenlees

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The buffed silver fuselage of the Memphis Belle now belies the famed B-17 bomber’s six punishing months of World War II air combat and the subsequent decades of neglect that left the plane battered by the elements and stripped by souvenir hunters while on public display in its namesake city.

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