The real Memphis Belle is an early-production B-17F model. The aircraft used to portray the Belle in the movie is a B-17G modified to look like an F. To do this the chin turret (used on G-models and the last 100 F-models) was removed, the "football" radio antenna under the nose was moved forward, and the enclosed waist- and radio gunner positions were replaced with the open windows found in F-model B-17s. However, the top turret is still the "high-roof" type of a B-17G, and the nose perspex window is a non-ribbed single piece with no guns mounted in it. All B-17Fs had at least one mount for either a .30- or .50-caliber machine gun in the perspex window (many had more than one, the actual Belle has two .30s), while the Gs mounted two .50-cals in the chin turret instead.

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