NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This Memorial Day weekend, the B-25 History Project is unveiling a piece of World War II history with an important tie to Kansas City. B-25 bombers were aircraft first made ...
On August 19th, 1940, the North American B-25 "Mitchell" performed its first flight. It would become the most versatile, widely used, and overall best medium-range bomber of World War II. The B-25 ...
The B-25 was first designed in 1940 and was intended to be the United States’ medium bomber workhorse. On paper, the B-25 was not particularly spectacular: it had two engines, a pencil-like fuselage, ...
The B-25 Mitchell proved far more than a medium bomber, it evolved into a brutal low-level attacker with skip bombing tactics, heavy guns, and even a 75mm cannon. Then comes the Doolittle Raid, a ...
SACRIFICE SPURRED ON THE WAR EFFORT HER MARTIN: BEFORE B-25 BOMBERS FILLED THE SKY, DURING WORLD WAR 2. THEY HAD TO BE TEST FLOWN AFTER ASSEMBLY IN KCK’S FAIRFAX PLANT. FROM RUNWAYS BUILT ADJACENT TO ...
More than 60 years ago, the Monongahela River pulled off a vanishing trick that sure makes Harry Houdini’s stunts look like child’s play. In January 1956, a U.S. Air Force B-25 bomber made an ...
Pilots start the engines of the B-25 “Berlin Express” at The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Friday. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) Buy Photo CEDAR RAPIDS — During the same week that World War II ...
AND SHAWNEE COUNTIES HONORING THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE DIED IN SERVICE. FOR OUR COUNTRY WAS CERTAINLY THE MISSION. THIS WEEKEND. FOR ONE TEAM, THEY ARE DEDICATED TO REMEMBERING A LITTLE KNOWN PIECE ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Soon, drivers coming over the U.S. 69 bridge into the Fairfax District in Kansas City, Kansas, could see the silhouette of a B-25 bomber stretching over Seventh Street Trafficway.
United States Air Force General William “Billy” Mitchell was a pioneer of American airpower in his time. The first man to prove that modern warplanes could be key to destroying naval warships in ...
A U.S. Army Air Force B-25 bomber, attempting to maneuver over New York City in a heavy fog, flew into the side of the Empire State Building on this date 75 years ago. All three aboard the plane and ...
Two B-25 bombers associated with American servicemen missing in action from World War II were recently documented in the waters off Papua New Guinea by Project Recover—a collaborative team of marine ...