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Only one B-25 bomber landed intact, in Vladivostok, where its five-man crew was interned and the aircraft confiscated. Of the 80 aircrew members, 69 survived their historic mission and eventually made it back to American lines.
On Saturday, July 28, 1945, Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith Jr., of Watertown, Massachusetts, [2] was piloting a B-25 Mitchell bomber on a routine personnel transport mission from Bedford Army Air Field in Massachusetts. Due to thick fog, the aircraft was unable to land at LaGuardia Airport as scheduled. [3]
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 ...
Naval Aircraft Factory SBN dive bomber: 1936: retired 1942: 31: North American A-27 attack: 1940: retired 1941: 10: North American T-6 Texan light attack: 1940: retired: 15,495 [notes 4] North American XB-21 medium bomber: 1936: retired prototype: 1: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber: 1940: retired 1979: 9,984: North American XB-28 ...
This aircraft, retired in 1960, was the last operational B-25 in the USAF inventory. [135] 44-31004 Mary Alice II – Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama. [136] 44-31032 Problem Child – March Field Air Museum at March ARB (former March AFB) in Riverside, California. It is on loan from the Military Aircraft Restoration Corp in Chino ...
The “Ghost Bomber of the Monongahela” is still missing, and the subject of plenty of conspiracy theories. 66 Years Ago, a B-25 Bomber Mysteriously Vanished in a Pennsylvania River Skip to main ...
Project Recover recently documented two lost World War II bombers in the waters off Papua New Guinea.
Bomber aircraft are military aircraft primarily designed for air-to-surface attack, ... North American B-25 Mitchell: US: Medium bomber: 1940: Operational: 9,984: