How the B-25 Mitchell Bomber Became a World War II Legend
Nicknamed “Billy’s Bomber” and “The Sweetheart of the Services,” the Mitchell was beloved by pilots because of its ability to wreak havoc on enemy targets.
Here s What You Need to Know: The North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber proved a versatile combat platform in all theaters.
Little more than four months after the disastrous attack on Pearl Harbor, America went on the offensive against Japan with one of the boldest and best remembered bomber raids of World War II. Led by Lt. Col. James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle and laden with extra fuel, 500-pound bombs, and incendiary clusters, 16 North American B-25 Mitchell bombers lumbered 500 feet along the wooden flight deck of the 19,900-ton Yorktown-class aircraft carrier USS
Was the P-51 Mustang the Greatest Plane to Ever Have Existed?
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Born in the U S A : The P-51 Mustang Proved America s Military Strength
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Memorial Day will have the usual observances this year. The ceremony at the Tombs of the Unknowns, the TV shots of Arlington National Cemetery with the graves decorated with flowers or small flags as tribute to the fallen. For unlike Veterans Day in November, Memorial Day remembers the dead those who served their country and, in too many cases, died in one of the many battles found in history books.
Some 16 million men and women left their jobs in the local drug store or the neighborhood garage, at a desk in an insurance company or the blackboard in a high school, on the farm or in a factory or kitchen, to go off to war, to save their country … and the world.