Memphis Belle Research Paper
The plane and its crew actually managed to have a fun start to their career from the creation of its name to the tour around the United States. From the moment that the crews pilot Captain Robert K. Morgan saw the plane he knew exactly what he wanted to call the plane, the Memphis Belle. At this point the pilot had a romance with the famous southern belle Margaret Polk who was from Memphis, Tennessee. The name Memphis Belle was dedicated to her because she was from Memphis and she was a southern belle, and the name had a nice ring to it (Air and Space Magazine). Some of the other crew members were uncertain about how they felt about the name at first, some had wanted to go with just Belle, but eventually the name had grown on all the crew members
(Air and Space Magazine). The crew had flown the Belle to Memphis on her shakedown flight to show Margaret Polk the masterpiece that she had