Un Bombardier nommé Liberty Lily

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Un Bombardier nommé Liberty Lily
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A Bomber Named the Liberty Lily, (Liberty Lily)
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52 min. , color
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NL: November 2006, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
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This documentary tells about the deployments of the US-B-17-bomber "Liberty Lily" during WWII.
In 1943 the morale of the American soldiers had worsened due to the loss of so many soldiers and thus a crew for the "Liberty Lily" was created to shoot a propaganda film. The crew should represent the diversity of the American population and the war should be shown as heroic. The pilot Gary, a typical spoiled child from the East Coast, navigator Sam Friedman from a Jewish family from Berlin, mechanic Tony, grown up in "Little Italy", "bomb-thrower" Jim, a farmer from Oklahoma and shooter Jan Kowalski, a Polish worker formed the crew of the plane.
The camera accompanied them on every deployment above Europe. Now there is the question about the authenticity of these exposures.
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Robert Morgan/ Ron Powers. The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle. Memoir of a World War II Bomber Pilot. New York: Dutton Books, 2001.
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