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The gunship design concept dates to late 1942 and NAA sent a field technical representative to the SWPA. The factory-produced B-25G entered production during the NA-96 order followed by the redesigned B-25H gunship. The B-25J reverted to the bomber role, but it, too, could be outfitted as a strafer. Late war development B-25J2 Mitchell strafer ...
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 ...
B-25J 44-28932 Tondelayo B-25J Mitchell – 44-30069 at Museu Aerospacial in Campos dos Afonsos Air Force Base – Rio de Janeiro B-25H Barbie III taxiing at Centennial Airport, Colorado B-25J 45-8883 Grumpy of the Canadian Warplane Heritage B-25J 44-30832 Take-off Time B-25D 43-3634 Yankee Warrior B-25J 43-28222 at Hurlburt Field, Florida B-25J 44-86772 at the Hill Air Force Base Museum, Hill ...
An aircraft in the first 10 units purchased in the fiscal year is often referred to as "Balls-(number)" – for example, NASA's B-52B, the oldest B-52 in service until its retirement, was known as Balls 8. Aircraft that use the tactical style of marking (for example AF80 020 to the left and below the wing tail code) are also referred to as 'balls'.
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B-25 from the movie Catch 22. When the 1970 film adaption of Catch-22 began preliminary production, Paramount made a decision to hire the Tallmantz Aviation organization to obtain sufficient North American B-25 Mitchell (B-25) bomber aircraft to recreate a Mediterranean wartime base as depicted in the Joseph Heller novel of the same name.
The 3d Brigade, 25th Infantry Division began deploying to Afghanistan in March 2004. The first element to deploy was 2d Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment ("Wolfhounds"). They were accompanied by Battery B, 3d Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment. The Wolfhounds operated in the volatile Paktika Province on the border with Pakistan in the ...
A lightweight version of the M3 with a lighter thin-walled barrel and a different recoil mechanism of the concentric hydrospring type (similar to the modern M256 smoothbore gun) that was used in the Douglas A-26 Invader and the North American B-25H Mitchell bombers. It uses the same ammunition and has the same ballistics as the M3. M6