B-25 Mitchell
- PBJ-1C
- Similar to the B-25C for the US Navy; often fitted with airborne search radar and used in the anti-submarine role.
- PBJ-1D
- Similar to the B-25D for the US Navy. Differed in having a single .50 caliber M2 in the tail turret and beam gun positions similar to the B-25H. Often fitted with airborne search radar and used in the anti-submarine role.
- PBJ-1G
- US Navy designation for the B-25G
- PBJ-1H
- US Navy designation for the B-25H
- PBJ-1J
- US Navy designation for the B-25J-NC (Blocks -1 through -35) with improvements in radio and other equipment. Often fitted with "package guns" and wingtip search radar for the anti-shipping/anti-submarine role.
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Operators
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- Biafran Air Force operated two aircraft.
- Royal Canadian Air Force - bomber, light transport, training aircraft, "special" mission roles
- People's Liberation Army Air Force operated captured Nationalist Chinese aircraft.
- Indonesian Air Force received some B-25 Mitchell from Netherlands, last example retired in 1979.
- Royal Netherlands Air Force
- No. 18 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron RAAF
- No. 119 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron RAAF
- No. 320 Dutch Bomber Squadron
- Spanish Air Force former USAAF serial number 41-30338 interned in 1944 and operated between 1948-1956.[8]
- Soviet Air Force received a total of 866 B-25s (of types C/D/S/G/J).[9]
- Royal Air Force received more than 900 aircraft.
- No. 98 Squadron RAF
- No. 180 Squadron RAF
- No. 226 Squadron RAF
- No. 342 Squadron RAF
- No. 681 Squadron RAF
- No. 684 Squadron RAF
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Survivors
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Specifications (B-25J)
Data from Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War II[10]
General characteristics
- Crew: six (two pilots, navigator/bombardier, turret gunner/engineer, radio operator/waist gunner, tail gunner
- Length: 52 ft 11 in (16.1 m)
- Wingspan: 67 ft 6 in (20.6 m)
- Height: 17 ft 7 in (4.8 m)
- Wing area: 610 sq ft (57 m²)
- Empty weight: 21,120 lb (9,580 kg)
- Loaded weight: 33,510 lb (15,200 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 41,800 lb (19,000 kg)
- Powerplant: 2× Wright R-2600 "Cyclone" radials, 1,850 hp (1,380 kW) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 275 mph (239 knots, 442 km/h)
- Cruise speed: 230 mph (200 knots, 370 km/h)
- Combat radius: 1,350 mi (1,170 nm, 2,170 km)
- Ferry range: 2,700 mi (2,300 nm, 4,300 km)
- Service ceiling 25,000 ft (7,600 m)
- Rate of climb: 790 ft/min (4 m/s)
- Wing loading: 55 lb/sq ft (270 kg/m²)
- Power/mass: 0.110 hp/lb (182 W/kg)
Armament
- Guns: 12× .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns
- Rockets: 3,000 lb (1,360 kg) bombs + eight 5-inch high velocity aircraft rockets (HVAR)
- Bombs: 6,000 lb (2,700 kg)
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Popular culture
The B-25 is featured in the 1961 novel Catch-22 translated into the 1971 Catch-22 (film) which had a large number of B-25s in flying condition. The B-25 also had feature roles in the movies: Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944) (one pilot's account of the Doolittle Raid), Hanover Street (1979) based a fictional B-25 unit stationed in England, Forever Young (1992), following a B-25 test pilot's story both in the past and present, and Pearl Harbor (2001) which culminates in a depiction of the Doolittle Raid.
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See also
- Ivor Parry Evans (B-25 use near Anzio, Italy, World War II)
Related development
Comparable aircraft
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References
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Notes
- ^ Kinzey 1999, p. 51, 53.
- ^ Yenne 1989, p.40.
- ^ Kinzey 1999, p. 52–53.
- ^ Kinzey 1999, p. 60.
- ^ a b Higham 1978
- ^ Roberts, William. Elevator World, March 1996. Retrieved: 1 December 2006.
- ^ Hamburger, Ronald, et al. "World Trade Center Building Performance Study." Federal Emergency Management Agency.Retrieved: 27 July 2006.
- ^ Cuatro Vientos - Madrid
- ^ Hardesty, Von [1982] (1991). "Appendixes", Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power 1941-1945. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 253. ISBN 0874745101.
- ^ Bridgman 1946, p. 249–251.
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Bibliography
- Bridgman, Leonard, ed. “The North American Mitchell.” Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War II. London: Studio, 1946. ISBN 1-85170-493-0.
- Green, William. Famous Bombers of the Second World War. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1975. ISBN 0-385-12467-8.
- Higham, Roy and Williams, Carol, eds. Flying Combat Aircraft of USAAF-USAF (Vol.1). Andrews AFB, Maryland: Air Force Historical Foundation, 1975. ISBN 0-8138-0325-X.
- Higham, Roy and Williams, Carol, eds. Flying Combat Aircraft of USAAF-USAF (Vol.2). Andrews AFB, Maryland: Air Force Historical Foundation, 1978. ISBN 0-8138-0375-6.
- Johnsen, Frederick A. North American B-25 Mitchell. Stillwater, Minnesota: Voyageur Press, 1997. ISBN 0-933424-77-9.
- Kinzey, Bert. B-25 Mitchell In Detail. Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications Inc., 1999. ISBN 1-888974-13-3.
- Kit, Mister and De Cock, Jean-Pierre. North American B-25 Mitchell (in French). Paris, France: Éditions Atlas, 1980.
- McDowell, Ernest R. B-25 Mitchell in Action (aircraft number 34). Carrollton, Texas: Squadron/Signal Publications Inc., 1978. ISBN 0-89747-033-8.
- McDowell, Ernest R. North American B-25A/J Mitchell (Aircam No.22). Canterbury, Kent, UK: Osprey Publications Ltd., 1971. ISBN 0-85045-027-6.
- Mizrahi, J.V. North American B-25: The Full Story of World War II's Classic Medium. Hollywood, California: Challenge Publications Inc., 1965.
- Pace, Steve. Warbird History: B-25 Mitchell. Osceola, Wisconsin: Motorbooks International, 1994. ISBN 0-87938-939-7.
- Scutts, Jerry. B-25 Mitchell at War. London: Ian Allan Ltd., 1983. ISBN 0-71101219-9.
- Scutts, Jerry. North American B-25 Mitchell. Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK: Crowood Press, 2001. ISBN 1-86126-394-5.
- Swanborough, Gordon. North American, an Aircraft Album No. 6. New York: ArcoPublishing Company Inc., 1973. ISBN 0-668-03318-5.
- Yenne, Bill, Rockwell: The Heritage of North American. New York: Crescent Books, 1989. ISBN 0-517-67252-9.
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- Warbird Central - Warbird Information Website
- Boeing: History -- Products - North American Aviation B-25 Mitchell Bomber
- Aero Vintage B-25 locator
- Site of the B-25J "Heavenly Body" - detailed B-25 historical overview, many pictures and a forum for asking questions
- Fantasy of Flight's B-25
- Russell's Raiders B25 - Jet Alpine Fighter
- VMB-613 - a marine bombing squadron that used the naval version of the B-25 known as the PBJ-1
- Militaire Luchtvaart Museum, Kamp Zeist, Soesterberg, Netherlands
- Warbirds Unlimited Foundation - Mesa, AZ - operators of the last flying H-model B-25 with 75mm cannon
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