NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This Memorial Day weekend, the B-25 History Project is unveiling a piece of World War II history with an important tie to Kansas City. B-25 bombers were aircraft first made ...

On August 19th, 1940, the North American B-25 "Mitchell" performed its first flight. It would become the most versatile, widely used, and overall best medium-range bomber of World War II. The B-25 ...

More than 60 years ago, the Monongahela River pulled off a vanishing trick that sure makes Harry Houdini’s stunts look like child’s play. In January 1956, a U.S. Air Force B-25 bomber made an ...

The B-25 was first designed in 1940 and was intended to be the United States’ medium bomber workhorse. On paper, the B-25 was not particularly spectacular: it had two engines, a pencil-like fuselage, ...

SACRIFICE SPURRED ON THE WAR EFFORT HER MARTIN: BEFORE B-25 BOMBERS FILLED THE SKY, DURING WORLD WAR 2. THEY HAD TO BE TEST FLOWN AFTER ASSEMBLY IN KCK’S FAIRFAX PLANT. FROM RUNWAYS BUILT ADJACENT TO ...

Pilots start the engines of the B-25 “Berlin Express” at The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Friday. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) Buy Photo CEDAR RAPIDS — During the same week that World War II ...

AND SHAWNEE COUNTIES HONORING THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE DIED IN SERVICE. FOR OUR COUNTRY WAS CERTAINLY THE MISSION. THIS WEEKEND. FOR ONE TEAM, THEY ARE DEDICATED TO REMEMBERING A LITTLE KNOWN PIECE ...

A flying link to World War II history landed in Wichita Falls Monday, offering a rare chance to tour and ride a B-25 Mitchell bomber. From an initial production of more than 10,000, there are only 34 ...

VAN BUREN TWP – Three-quarters of a century after it served eight missions for the British RAF in Italy, the "Yankee Warrior" is flying civilian sorties over Washtenaw County. The aircraft, maintained ...

Two B-25 bombers associated with American servicemen missing in action from World War II were recently documented in the waters off Papua New Guinea by Project Recover—a collaborative team of marine ...

The incident accelerated scrutiny of military and civilian flight paths over major cities, influencing legislation about air traffic control methods and building design for impact resistance. On July ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The bomber’s solid design helped turn the tide for the United States world-wide. The B-25 was first designed in 1940 and was intended to be the United States’ medium ...