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  2. List of surviving North American B-25 Mitchells - Wikipedia

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    B-25. 40-2168 Miss Hap – based at the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale, NY. This aircraft was the fourth off the North American production line in 1940 and was designated an RB-25 (the "R" indicating restricted from combat, not a reconnaissance aircraft) and was assigned to General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold in 1943 and 1944.

  3. North American B-25 Mitchell - Wikipedia

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    The B-25B found fame as the bomber used in the 18 April 1942 Doolittle Raid, in which 15 B-25Bs led by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle attacked mainland Japan, four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (a 16th plane which participated was forced to abort, landing in Russia, where it and the crew were initially interned). The ...

  4. 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash - Wikipedia

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    The plane embedded in the side of the building At 9:40 a.m., the aircraft crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building , between the 78th and 80th floors, making an 18-by-20-foot (5.5 m × 6.1 m) hole in the building [ 9 ] into the offices of the War Relief Services and the National Catholic Welfare Council .

  5. 66 Years Ago, a B-25 Bomber Mysteriously Vanished in a ... - AOL

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    The “Ghost Bomber of the Monongahela” is still missing, and the subject of plenty of conspiracy theories.

  6. List of surviving examples of mass-produced aircraft - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of surviving examples of mass-produced aircraft, specifically those that are notable solely or primarily for still existing. To illustrate, the Enola Gay is excluded from this list, but included in List of individual aircraft because it dropped the first atomic bomb .

  7. Sole Survivor (1970 film) - Wikipedia

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    While the film follows the fate of the six-man crew of a B-25 Mitchell bomber, Sole Survivor is loosely based on the 1958 discovery of the B-24 Liberator bomber Lady Be Good in the Libyan desert. The Lady Be Good and her nine-man crew had disappeared without a trace in 1943, following its first and only combat mission in World War II. The ...

  8. B-25 Mitchell units of the United States Army Air Forces

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    The B-25 medium bomber was one the most famous airplanes of World War II. It was the type used by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle for the famous Doolittle Raid over Japan on 18 April 1942. The first B-25 test aircraft flew on 19 August 1940, and the first production Mitchell was delivered to the 17th Bombardment Group in February 1941. A total of 9,816 ...

  9. Blackburn Roc - Wikipedia

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    The Blackburn Roc (company designation B-25) was a naval fighter aircraft designed and produced by the British aviation company Blackburn Aircraft. It took its name from the mythical bird of the tales of the Arabian Nights, the Roc. It was operated by the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) and was active during the Second World War.