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The B-25 medium bomber was one the most famous airplanes of World War II. It was the type used by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle for the famous Doolittle Raid over Japan on 18 April 1942. The first B-25 test aircraft flew on 19 August 1940, and the first production Mitchell was delivered to the 17th Bombardment Group in February 1941. A total of 9,816 ...
The B-25 had a longer range than the Douglas A-20 Havoc and Douglas A-26 Invader, allowing it to reach further into occupied Europe. The five bombardment groups – 20 squadrons – of the Ninth and Twelfth Air Forces that used the B-25 in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations were the only U.S. units to employ the B-25 in Europe. [15]
In an accident similar to the B-25 Mitchell hitting the Empire State Building in 1945, USAAF Beech C-45F Expeditor 44-47570 of the 4108th AAF Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, [257] on a navigation-training flight from Lake Charles Army Air Field in Louisiana, [258] crashed in fog at about 20:10 into the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan Trust ...
In the air force over a half of losses were non-combat losses." [4] British Empire. United Kingdom: Europe 22,010 (including 10,045 fighters and 11,965 bombers) [3] Australia, Pacific and South East Asia: 250 [5] United States: Total losses were nearly 95,000, including 52,951 operational losses (38,418 in Europe and 14,533 in the Pacific). [3]
On the morning of March 3, 1945, 51 medium and light bombers of the North American B-25 Mitchell and Douglas Boston types from No. 137 and No. 139 wings of the Second Tactical Air Force took off from Melsbroek near Brussels and Vitry in Northern France with a payload of 67,000 kg of high-explosive bombs. [10] [9] [11]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Aerial bombing attacks in 1945 You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (June 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations ...
B-25. 40-2168 Miss Hap – based at the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale, NY. This aircraft was the fourth off the North American production line in 1940 and was designated an RB-25 (the "R" indicating restricted from combat, not a reconnaissance aircraft) and was assigned to General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold in 1943 and 1944.
15 April: The Belfast Blitz kills 1000, the greatest loss of British lives outside London from a night raid. 10 May : The longest blitz air raid on london killing 2324 people and 11,000 houses. 22 June - 3 July : In the opening phase of Operation Barbarossa , the Luftwaffe achieved air superiority by destroying some 2,000 Soviet aircraft, at a ...