Vintage shots from days gone by!

If I remember right, this was an invention of a sergeant named "Pappy Gunn," who left the Navy to innovate Air Corps bombers...he came up with the idea of putting a 75mm cannon in the B-25, and loading the front with 50 cal machine guns...myth was that when they fired, the plane stopped in the air from the recoil...old pilot's tale, but must have gotten the new crew members attention...not sure that they hit all that much, but another story is that when they hit a Japanese destroyers mid-ships, it blew the stack clean off the ship....Im not an airplane historian so anyone who knows more step in and correct me

 

Think that this is June Wilkinson, playboy model and wife of quarterback and later drag racer Dan Pastorini...posing with one of Art Chrisman's "Hustlers."

 

OK who knows what the white box is on the lead plane and the start of one on the next plane? Thanks. Maybe DOC

 

Help the search for the B-25...One of Pittsburgh's Historic Mysteries


http://www.sennex.com/b25/

At 4:10 P.M., on January 31, 1956, a TB-25N medium bomber ditched in the Monongahela River (locally known as the "Mon") near Homestead, Pennsylvania, and was lost. All six of the occupants aboard the aircraft survived the ditching. Only four, however, survived their encounter with the freezing Mon. In the fourteen days following the ditching, a search for the aircraft was conducted but the B-25 was never found and its fate remains one of Pittsburgh's most intriguing, enduring and challenging mysteries.​

Piece of B-25 bomber to be on display.

The 1-by-4-inch strip of metal came from "Whiskey Pete," one of the B-25 bombers that struck Japan four months after Pearl Harbor.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories...bomber-to-be-on-display-243007/#ixzz2ZRfD67UH

Some Vid.
http://www.wtae.com/news/local/alle...ter/-/10927008/18363382/-/dvwagi/-/index.html

 

while not every Mitchell seems to have had them it looks like rough sealant of (frequent) access panel, with same on other side too:
https://picasaweb.google.com/106927254990340966092/19July2013?authuser=0&feat=directlink


another B-25 story that's worth finding is the one that hit the Empire State Building ...
steven

 

my dad had it happen to him, he laughed about that for a long time,
also had the rear window blow out from not having a window down on a 95 degree day in southern california
man did it make a boom and glass all over the place.

 

Here are some photos, July 1945, B-25 lost in fog trying to land at Mitchell field, hit Empire state building, the crew and 11 people in the building died.

 

Hard not to.

 

does anyone remember this car running at Houston International around 1968? Bob Tinkle drove it and a Thunderbolt called Hazel.

 

correct me if i have misremembered, but;
after flying more than his share of raids over europe perfectly good pilot takes off (from la guardia (sp?)) with a load of generals - into cloud, starts to pull up on seeing the Chrysler building but hits the (78th floor?) office of the Catholic War Relief Fund; one engine goes through to the Waldorf and the other takes the lift - the occupant of which survived - to the basement... facade damage visible still.
about my calling this 'interesting' - maybe not so much any more - but thanks for illustrating it 296ardun.
steven

 

Good job these guys are jockeys - you'd struggle to go 3-up in one of those little sports jobs.

Mart.

 

Guess you got on the wrong side of someone, no pictures on you last few posts

 

Here's the nose art from my brother in laws B-25---When he returned from 57 missions in 1943 So. Pacific, he gave me this leather jacket patch which I cherished at 11 yrs. old at that time.