Nice capture Jim. The last B25 I saw "in the flesh" was in Bordeaux in '53
or '54. She wore French colors and had a 75mm gun fixed in the nose. I
suspect it was returned from what was then Indochina. And NO! I can't
imagine the guts it took to drive that beast off the deck of a carrier.
On Dec 10, 2015 1:06 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for looking, Chris. And it is probably one of the noisiest, both
> inside and out. When they landed over the parking lot at Wright Field,
> Dayton, Ohio, in the early 1950s, they sounded like someone was rattling an
> enormous bag of tin cans. A recent report on one of the last ones flying
> said the noise inside during flight was much higher than other aircraft.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 12/10/2015 11:57 AM, ChrisB wrote:
>
>> It’s such a distinctive shape and profile, Jim.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 10 Dec 2015, at 17:09, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:
>>> jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This well kept North American B-25 belonging to the CAF was seen at the
>>> Galveston, TX airport in 1973. Just picture these flying from a carrier
>>> deck, as Jimmy Doolittle did for the Tokyo Raid.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/CAF+B-25+Galveston+1973.JPG.html
>>> <
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/CAF+B-25+Galveston+1973.JPG.html
>>> >
>>>
>>> Photo gear not recorded.
>>>
>>
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