B-25 Pacific Princess 68th Doolittle Reunion
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The B-25 Mitchell was an effective light bomber and ground strafer, especially in the South Pacific and Burma, where variants were operated with a nose-mounted 75mm cannon and beaucoup .50 cals.
The RCAF reserve squadrons in Edmonton and Saskatoon flew them up until 1960-61. I remember seeing them around Saskatoon. They were a forgiving plane to fly.
You can see one at the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton,OH. Other air museums in the US which I can recommend from personal experience include the Navy museum at Pensacola,FL, the Pima County Air Museum at Tucson,AZ, museums at McMinnville (they have the Spruce Goose) and Tillamook,OR, and of course, the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
The Edmonton museum on Kingsway has a B-25 in process of restoration and I believe the Air Museum in Rockcliffe also has one. If you want to see lots of B-25 flying scenes watch the movie Catch 22 which was filmed in San Carlos, Mexico in 1969. I spent some time in San Carlos a couple of years ago and you can readily identify the mountain which appears in the movie.
The RCAF reserve squadrons in Edmonton and Saskatoon flew them up until 1960-61. I remember seeing them around Saskatoon. They were a forgiving plane to fly.
You can see one at the USAF Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton,OH. Other air museums in the US which I can recommend from personal experience include the Navy museum at Pensacola,FL, the Pima County Air Museum at Tucson,AZ, museums at McMinnville (they have the Spruce Goose) and Tillamook,OR, and of course, the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
The Edmonton museum on Kingsway has a B-25 in process of restoration and I believe the Air Museum in Rockcliffe also has one. If you want to see lots of B-25 flying scenes watch the movie Catch 22 which was filmed in San Carlos, Mexico in 1969. I spent some time in San Carlos a couple of years ago and you can readily identify the mountain which appears in the movie.
Buck Turgidson
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the warplane heritage museum in hamilton ontario also has a flying example. its called "Grumpy" and has the D-day stripes. (that particular one not actually used in D-day) they also have 1 of 2 flying lancasters. great place to go on a saturday afternoon if you have a few hours.
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- Tucson, Arizona
On that nose mounted cannon The first time they used it, they were recieving very accurate flak in return. Actualy what happened was the air force types knew nothing about field artillery so they thought you had to turn the fuse all the way round to arm it. They were getting ZERO DELAY, the round going off as it cleared the muzzle!
