[ARCHIVED THREAD] - B-25 Mitchell thread (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 12/27/2014 7:10:32 PM EDT
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I never watched Catch22, I probably should. They gathered together something like 15 flying B25s and several non-flying examples for the filming. Odds are the ones you see now in airshows were used in the film. Movie is funnier than hell too, if you can stand Black Humor. |
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Same here. I've read the book, but didn't realize there was a MITO scene in the movie with that many birds. My personal favorite is the B-26, but nobody wrote books or made movies about them. 
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I never watched Catch22, I probably should. Same here. I've read the book, but didn't realize there was a MITO scene in the movie with that many birds. My personal favorite is the B-26, but nobody wrote books or made movies about them.
Yes. You don't hear much about the B-26 / A-26. I had an uncle who was a mechanic for them in Oklahoma / training school during the war. Sadly, he died of an repertory illness right here in the US during the war. |
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This one is at Falcon Field in Mesa, AZ <a href="http://s818.photobucket.com/user/Mbradders/media/DSC01389_zps5dffafc1.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz105/Mbradders/DSC01389_zps5dffafc1.jpg</a> I'll be damned, I have a picture of that exact spot with nothing on it in my photobucket. I think I was just photographing the scenery.. 
But, here's a contribution to the thread: 
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I'll be damned, I have a picture of that exact spot with nothing on it in my photobucket. I think I was just photographing the scenery.. http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq331/AR45fan/null_zps0c5c2f09.jpg But, here's a contribution to the thread: http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq331/AR45fan/null_zpsc1e48485.jpg Quoted:
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This one is at Falcon Field in Mesa, AZ <a href="http://s818.photobucket.com/user/Mbradders/media/DSC01389_zps5dffafc1.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i818.photobucket.com/albums/zz105/Mbradders/DSC01389_zps5dffafc1.jpg</a> I'll be damned, I have a picture of that exact spot with nothing on it in my photobucket. I think I was just photographing the scenery.. http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq331/AR45fan/null_zps0c5c2f09.jpg But, here's a contribution to the thread: http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/qq331/AR45fan/null_zpsc1e48485.jpg 
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Same here. I've read the book, but didn't realize there was a MITO scene in the movie with that many birds. My personal favorite is the B-26, but nobody wrote books or made movies about them.
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I never watched Catch22, I probably should. Same here. I've read the book, but didn't realize there was a MITO scene in the movie with that many birds. My personal favorite is the B-26, but nobody wrote books or made movies about them.
Its okay bro, nobody does movies about the OH58D either. |
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Had some rare photos in my collection of the strafer B-25's.
We lost a few guys from my hometown that were B-25 strafer crew members. 
The gun sight used by the pilot to target the machine guns and cannon, as well as for skip bombing. This particular sight, the N-3B, had to be manually adjusted by the pilot as the plane approached the target to account for the decreasing range and effects of gravity. The War Department also experimented with a forward-looking radar gun sight, the AN/APG-13 "Falcon," that could remotely adjust the sight based on adjustments made by the radar operator sitting to the pilot's right. Used by the Navy/Marine Corps, and also by the 14th Air Force, the radar gun sight worked best against shipping targets without a "cluttered" background to confuse the operator. To the best of my knowledge, none of the 13th and 5th Air Force units in the South Pacific used the radar sight, whereas it was used by both the 341st BG of the Army Air Force and VMB-613 Squadron of the Marine Corps. An image of the AN/APG-13 Falcon radar used to guide the 75mm cannon to hit ship targets. 
Some gun camera footage from the B-25 strafers. Camera looking back, you can see the bombs skipping off the water and detonating the second time they come down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0xpyWVMzQ Forward mounted gun cam, the vets told me they would go line abreast and just hold the trigger down to rake a patch of .50 cal to supress the ground fire and damage what they could while dropping parachute bombs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZttUNTy57E Becoming lost history sadly. |
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My Favorite Twilight's Zone episode King 9 will not return http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/off-topic-misc-/257700-movie-tz_king-nine_1.jpg http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/twilight-zone-season-2-1-king-nine-will-not-return.jpg http://www.rodserling.com/images/pubKingNine01.jpg Is that the one where he (and his wife, IIRC) are stuck in a different time scheme. Everyone else is moving slowly, they figure out a way to save their daughter who would have been hit by a truck? Pre Stephen King Tommyknocker type script. nope, not the same one. |
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Quoted: Yes. You don't hear much about the B-26 / A-26. I had an uncle who was a mechanic for them in Oklahoma / training school during the war. Sadly, he died of an repertory illness right here in the US during the war. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I never watched Catch22, I probably should. Same here. I've read the book, but didn't realize there was a MITO scene in the movie with that many birds. My personal favorite is the B-26, but nobody wrote books or made movies about them. Yes. You don't hear much about the B-26 / A-26. I had an uncle who was a mechanic for them in Oklahoma / training school during the war. Sadly, he died of an repertory illness right here in the US during the war. Not to hi-jack the thread but for you two here is a video talking about both the B-26 and Oklahoma training schools |
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Yes. You don't hear much about the B-26 / A-26. I had an uncle who was a mechanic for them in Oklahoma / training school during the war. Sadly, he died of an repertory illness right here in the US during the war. Quoted:
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I never watched Catch22, I probably should. Same here. I've read the book, but didn't realize there was a MITO scene in the movie with that many birds. My personal favorite is the B-26, but nobody wrote books or made movies about them.
Yes. You don't hear much about the B-26 / A-26. I had an uncle who was a mechanic for them in Oklahoma / training school during the war. Sadly, he died of an repertory illness right here in the US during the war. Oh, okay. 
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OP's video needs to be full screen to be fully appreciated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLMDIlxUa58 |
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Got into an argument with a guy about 4 months ago about this plane.. Swore up and down a B25 had four engines. I schooled his ass. B24 was what he was thinking after I showed him.. The B-24 gets no love on ARF. The B-25 was a good plane though, love the arty in the nose. |
My first squadron in the AF was an old B-25 unit. We had the old log books in our conference room, crazy stuff.
490th Missile Squadron |
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I had a great uncle (I think that is the term, he was my mother's uncle), who was a mechanic/ground crew for the 489th bomb squadron during WW2. I am pretty sure that was the squadron, since I recall him saying the B-25 "Briefing Time, 9D" is painted the same as the ones from his war unit. He died in 1999.
He did tell me that he talked his way onto one of the bombers for a mission, and I think he said one was enough for him. He was wounded during an attack by german planes on one of their airfields, possibly in north africa. He said conditions in north africa were bad - no hot meals for a whole year, old tents. He was also at the airfield in sicily that was covered by ash and many of the B-25s were covered with and destroyed by hot volcanic ash during the eruption of Vesuvius in 1944. He always talked about one moment , it was either sicily or corsica, were he was on the airfield, and a new B-25 comes in. He looks at the pilot and it was a guy from his little hometown, here in western Pennsylvania. A town called Slickville - everyone gets a laugh out of the name. Maybe not such a big deal until you consider it was/is a tiny little coal mining town (no active mining today but still tiny), probably no mre than 300 residents at the time. I don't recall him having any personal photographs. |
| When I was younger (13 yrs old) I got to climb in to a B-25 that Grand Forks AFB was restoring for a static display. I had liked the B-25 for years before that so it was so awesome to be able to climb and crawl through the whole plane as if was a jungle gym. So if any of you go to GFAFB, I was in that B-25 that is on display at the main gate. |
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Eisenhower's B-25 DECEMBER 2014 BY JOHN FREDRICKSON A Mitchell bomber was specially modified to serve as General Eisenhower's personal frontline transport. Eisenhower had an eclectic collection of aircraft at his disposal for a variety of uses, but only one was specially made for him. It was a heavily converted B-25 Mitchell medium bomber, built and modified by North American Aviation, the same company that produced the B-25s that attacked Japan in 1942 in the famous Doolittle Raid. Eisenhower's B-25—serial No. 43-4030—is poorly documented and deliberately so.   |
