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Palm Springs Air Museum's airworthy 1944 B-25J Mitchell Bomber

Yikes!

B-25 "Rose's Beau" of the 48th BS, 41st BG, 7th AF with an impressive mission tally

The famous Devil Dog. Oshkosh 2023

Liberty Aviation Museum’s 1945 B-25J Bomber

B-25 Nose Art

Texas Gal, a B-25H of the 12th Bomb Group in India, 1944

My new fave nose art

A heavily damaged B-25 on a flatbed trailer at a repair depot in Townsville, Australia, 1943.

Somehow I doubt this one is returning to service

I wonder what happened?   #retrowar  #aircraft  

310th Bomb Group B-25s in flight over the Mediterranean, January 1943 

Daaaaang. Oshkosh 2022

Female US Air Force engineering test pilots walk in front of a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber. The pilots were WASPS, Women Air Force Service Pilots, and in this capacity ferried aircraft from factories to military bases, piloted planes during training exercises for male pilots and towed targets behind their planes for target practice with live ammunition. [x]

“The restored World War II B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft “Heavenly Body” takes off from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-61). It and another B-25 are being launched in a re-enactment of “Doolittle’s Raid” of April 18, 1942, during which 16 B-25’s were launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) in the first attack on the Japanese mainland.”

(Photograph by Terry Mitchell)

B-25D Mitchell “Ruptured Duck”