B-25 Mitchell In Action (Paperback)
Item #SS10221

by David Doyle.

The North American B-25 Mitchell was one of the premier U.S.
warplanes of World War II. It gained immortality early in the
United States? involvement in the war when a small group of
B-25Bs under Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle took off from the deck of
the USS Hornet and executed a surprise attack on military targets

on the Japanese island of Honshu. Subsequently, Mitchells would
see service in every U.S. theater of war, doing duty as a
tactical bombers, coastal patrol aircraft, photo-reconnaissance
and photo-mapping planes, and, when fitted with additional guns
and rockets, as a superb ground- or shipping-attack platforms.
The U.S. supplied B-25s to the British Royal Air Force and to the

Soviet Union, which flew them against the Nazis on the Eastern
Front. Through period photographs and detailed information, the
career of the Mitchell is covered from the experimental NA-40
prototype to the final production B-25J model. U.S. Marine Corps
PBJ versions are also chronicled. Eight all-new pages of photos
and information fill out this latest version of Squadron?s B-25
Mitchell in Action. Illustrated with 225 photographs, more than
80 of them rare period photos in original color, plus color
profiles and detailed line drawings; 80 pages.
Paperback in perfect binding ISBN = 978-0-89747-625-6.