Memphis Belle är smeknamnet på ett Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress , ett bombflygplan, som blev berömt när dess besättning lyckades flyga 25 uppdrag över Europa och återvända hem till USA under andra världskriget. Det sista uppdraget flögs 17 maj 1943. Flygplanet finns fortfarande kvar och visas på museum.

Namnet Memphis Belle kom sig av piloten Robert K. Morgans flickvän som kom från just Memphis, Tennesseee. Det målades också en traditionsenlig pinupbild på planets nos, blå baddräkt på babords sida och röd på styrbords!

Besättningen

Vem var då Stuka? Jo, planets enda kvinnliga passagerare....

Kapten Jim Verinis fann den skotska terriern i en djuraffär i London, blev ögonblickligen förälskad och tog med sig den lilla hunden tillbaka till flottiljen, Stuka blev besättningens maskot och ansågs föra tur med sig.

Stuka var mycket omtyckt och skämdes bort i kantinen och soldaterna turades om att få ha henne med sig i sängen. Hon skrevs även in i besättningslistan och fick efter krigets slut turnera runt hela USA tillsammans med grabbarna som kom att bli mycket populära i sitt hemland.

Stuka levde sedan resten av sitt liv tillsammans med Jim Verinis och dennes familj på en gård.

Stuka med husse

Kända personer och deras skottar!

Amy Alcott, Pro golfer, had a Scottie named Venus
Lionel Barrymore, actor, had a Scottie named Johnny
John Barrymore, actor
Humphrey Bogart had two Scotties.

Charles Boyer, actor
Bette Davis, actress, had a Scottie named Tibby

Loraine Day had a Scottie named Butch
President Eisenhower had two Scotties, Telek and Caacie
Sir Edward Elgar, composer
Stu Erwin had a Scottie named Stormy Weather
Zsa Zsa Gabor, actress
George Herriman, the creator of Krazy Kat, had several scotties. George Herriman is said to have kept as many as five scotties at one time.
Betty Hutton's Scottie howled when she sang
Nancy Kelley, 20th Cent-Fox actress, had a Scottie named Scottie
Jackie Kennedy had a Scottie when she was a child

Bert Lahr, actor, had a Scottie named Barry
Dorothy Lamour had a Scottie named Peanuts
Charles Lindbergh, pilot had a Scottie named "Skean," which means "short sword" in Gaelic.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth had a Scottie named Sandy
Ida Lupino, had a Scottie named Edward
Rue McClanahan, actress, had a Scottie named Harrod
Dorothy Parker, had a Scottie named Daisy
Walter Pidgeon
Lily Pons, Metropolitan Opera soprano, had Scotties for many years
Ella Raines, had a Scottie named Nugget who chewed on War Bonds
Basil Rathbone, actor
Ronald Reagan, actor & US President, had two Scotties named Scotch and Soda

President Franklin D. Roosevelt had the famous Fala.

 
Eleanor Roosevelt had a Scottie named "Maggie" or "Meggie" after the deaths of FDR and Fala.
Theodore Roosevelt, US President, had a Scottie named Jessie
Ann Southern, actress, had a Scottie named Doonie that was in the movie-Maisie Goes to Reno
Shirley Temple (posed for childhood snapshots with Scotties, including one given to her as a gift)

James Thurber, writer, had a Scottie named Jeannie
S.S Van Dines, mystery writer
Queen Victoria, had a Scottie named Laddie
E.B White, author, who on his wedding day, could not find anyone to take care of his Scottie, so the dog was taken to the church..
Katherine White had a Scottie named Daisy