Monday, 21 April 2025

B-25B Mitchell


Following the order from the US Army Air Forces in September, 1939, North American Aviation built 9,889 B-25 medium bombers at two plants in Inglewood, California and Fairfax, Kansas. The plane was first used in combat in April, 1942, in the Doolittle Raid to bomb Tokyo and two other cities in Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid. The B-25 saw combat in the Pacific, Middle East and Europe during   WWII.

 The B-25 had a wing span of 67 feet 7 inches (20.6 m) and a length of 53 feet (16.15 m). It had an operating range of about 3,000 miles (5,000 km.) The plane carried a crew of five: pilot, co—pilot, bombardier, radio operator/navigator, gunner.

This model is based on the stripped-down plane captained by Lt. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle and caries the sparce livery used on the raid.

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