B-25 Mitchell

Nose art on the B-25 "BAM'S MAM" in the CBI during WWII.

The B-25 "Tokyo Jo" and crew in Yunnan province, China, having bombed Tokyo April 18-19, 1942, as part of Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.

Chinese soldier keeps guard over B-25s in SW China during WWII.

The B-25 Mitchell #41-33940 "Incendiary Blond" with nose wheel gone, somewhere in the CBI.

T/Sgt. Harold "Hal" Geer, photographer and videographer, 16th Combat Camera Unit (CCU) examines masking on bomb icons on a B-25 of the 11th Bomb Squadron (indicated by the "Mr. Jiggs" insignia) readying for painting to indicate three more bombing missions. Taken at Ehr Tong Airfield, Guilin (Kweilin), Guangxi Province, southwest China during WWII, as photographed by Selig Seidler, 16th CCU.

Maintenance personnel move across upper surfaces during pre-mission servicing of a B-25H 'gunship' of the 11th Bomb Squadron (not Group), 341st Bomb Group at Yang Tong Airfield, Guilin in Guangxi province, China. Circa fall of 1944.

American GIs examine small Japanese fragmentation bomb in China on November 13th, 1942. 2nd Lt. Nicholas Marich (sometimes spelled Marick) and 2nd Lt. Joseph W. Cunningham returned to American bases after having spent three days behind Japanese lines evading capture after their B-25 bomber was shot down on October 25, 1942 about 25 miles north-west of Hong Kong, China. They...

During WWII, T/Sgt. Douglas V. Radney of Mineola, Texas, poses by his turret position on top of his plane at an air base somewhere in China. January 1943. (Douglas Radney was an Engineer-Gunner; Doolittle Tokyo Raid crew #2) Mr. Radney passed away in 1994. A biography can be found here. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.

A crew of the 11th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group poses beside their North American B-25 "Obliterators Excuse Please" at an airfield somewhere in China, February 2, 1943. They are (l-r): S/Sgt Pat N. Boudreaux, Port Arthur, Texas, Radio-Gunner S/Sgt Karl H. May, Yakima, Washington, Engineer-Gunner Lt. Charles H. Dearth, Sidney, Ohio, Navigator Lt. Mason O. Brown, Calwell, Idaho, Co-Pilot...

A crew of the 11th Bomb Squadron, 341st Bomb Group poses beside their North American B-25 "Little Joe III" at an airfield somewhere in China, February 2, 1943. They are: Capt. Joseph L. Skeldon, Toledo, Ohio, Pilot Lt. Robert D. Hippert, Cincinnati, Ohio, Navigator T/Sgt. Maurice A. Paynter, Kingston, West Virginia, Bombardier S/Sgt. Norton G. Stubblefield, Dallas, Texas, Engineer-Gunner T/Sgt...