I had this postcard and decided to find more information about it.
North American B25 Bomber antique postcard at http://www.jewelant.com
From Wikipedia article North American B-25 Mitchell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_B-25_Mitchell
The B-25 was named in honor of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation.
The B-25 was a descendant of the earlier XB-21 (North American-39) project of the mid-1930s. Experience gained in developing that aircraft was eventually used by North American in designing the B-25 (called the NA-40 by the company).
The majority of B-25s in American service were used in the Pacific. They fought on Papua New Guinea, in Burma and in the island hopping campaign in the central Pacific.
In Burma, the B-25 was often used to attack Japanese communication links, especially bridges in central Burma. It also helped supply the besieged troops at Imphal in 1944.
In the Pacific, the B-25 proved itself to be a very capable anti-shipping weapon, sinking many ships.
The first B-25s arrived in Egypt just in time to take part in the Battle of El Alamein. From there the aircraft took part in the rest of the campaign in North Africa, the invasion of Sicily and the advance up Italy.
The U.S. Eighth Air Force, based in Britain, concentrated on long-range raids over Germany and occupied Europe. During World War Two the British RAF received nearly 900 Mitchells, using them to replace Douglas Bostons, Lockheed Venturas and Vickers Wellington bombers.
Although the B-25 was originally designed to bomb from medium altitudes in level flight, it was used frequently in the Southwest Pacific theatre on treetop-level strafing and missions with parachute-retarded fragmentation bombs against Japanese airfields in New Guinea and the Philippines
The B-25 first gained fame as the bomber used in the 18 April 1942 Doolittle Raid, in which 16 B-25Bs led by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle attacked mainland Japan, four months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) was an early customer for the B-25 via Lend-Lease. The RAF was the only force to use the B-25 on raids against Europe from bases in the United Kingdom, as the USAAF used the Martin B-26 Marauder and Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress for this purpose instead.
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was an important user of the B-25 Mitchell,
The Australians got Mitchells by the spring of 1944.
During World War II, the Mitchell served in fairly large numbers with the Air Force of the Dutch government-in-exile
The U.S. supplied 862 B-25 (of B, D, G, and J types) aircraft to the Soviet Union under lend-lease during the Second World War via the Alaska–Siberia ALSIB ferry route.
Well over 100 B-25Cs and Ds were supplied to the Nationalist Chinese during the Second World War. In addition, a total of 131 B-25Js were supplied to China under Lend-Lease.
During the war, the Força Aérea Brasileira (FAB) received a few B-25s under Lend-Lease.
At least 21 Mitchell IIIs were issued by the Royal Air Force to No 342 Squadron, which was made up primarily of Free French aircrews.
At 9:40 on Saturday, 28 July 1945, a USAAF B-25D crashed in thick fog into the north side of the Empire State Building between the 79th and 80th floors.
There are more than one hundred surviving North American B-25 Mitchells scattered over the world, mainly in the United States. Most of them are on static display in museums, but about 45 are still airworthy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_North_American_B-25_Mitchells
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SPECIFICATIONS
Crew: 6 (one pilot, one co-pilot, navigator/bombardier, turret gunner/engineer, radio operator/waist gunner, tail gunner)
Length: 52 ft 11 in (16.13 m)
Wingspan: 67 ft 7 in (20.60 m)
Height: 16 ft 4 in (4.98 m)
Wing area: 610 sq ft (56.7 m²)
Empty weight: 19,480 lb (8,855 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 35,000 lb (15,910 kg)
Powerplant: 2 × Wright R-2600-92 Twin Cyclone 14-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, 1,700 hp (1,267 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 272 mph (237 kn, 438 km/h) at 13,000 ft (3,960 m)
Cruise speed: 230 mph (200 knots, 370 km/h)
Range: 1,350 mi (1,174 nmi, 2,174 km)
Service ceiling: 24,200 ft (7,378 m)
Armament
Guns: 12–18 × .50 in (12.7 mm) machine guns and 75 mm (2.95 in) T13E1 cannon
Hardpoints: 2,000 lb (900 kg) ventral shackles to hold one external Mark 13 torpedo[35]
Rockets: racks for eight 5 in (127 mm) high velocity aircraft rockets (HVAR)
Bombs: 3,000 lb (1,360 kg) bombs
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List of aircraft of World War II
The List of aircraft of World War II includes all the aircraft used by those countries which were at war during World War II from the period between their joining the conflict and the conflict ending for them. See this article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_of_World_War_II
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Note: jewelant.com has this postcard, and if you like it, it is possible to order a print of it to hang on your wall. The original was scanned in high resolution, and would make a fine addition to any military collection. Just email jewelant and inquire.
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TO ALL THE GOOD PEOPLE THAT HAVEN’T HEARD FROM ME LATELY
This is not your fault (you good people that want to contact me), and periodically I get on the internet and go through those emails and weed out the chaf and try to make sense of it. But what none of you knew was that recently I lost someone very close to me. Just a few months after that I lost my cat YOGA CAT YOWIE, and have been working through the mental upset of that, and then I got sick and have been working through that also. I have not had the energy, nor the mental wherewithal to deal with the internet for the past few months. I still don’t.
I have been getting a lot of messages through the form mail that I (years ago) put on some of my web pages. I want everyone to know that at one point I tried to remove those forms from the pages, but years later WordPress changed something so that I couldn’t do that. So those forms stay on there, endlessly sending me notifications not just from legit. people that want to contact me, but hundreds of emails from scammers that have no legit purpose for existing on the internet. Again, none of it is your fault, I’m not trying to make you disappear if you need to talk to me. Go stomp the scammers for me, I’m too tired.
I know that some of you want to have a copy of the panoramas from World War One. I am absolutely sure that it is not illegal to sell the actual picture, but this belongs to the family and I can’t do that. I am an artist, and I take copyrights very seriously. I own several myself and it’s a subject that I will not back down on. I have not had time to research whether these are in public domain or not, and that is necessary before I transfer ANY copies of them to anyone for any reason. Need or not.
If I was certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that these panoramas were in the public domain, with NO copyrights in effect, I would send you all a copy, I would sell copies everywhere. (I might make maybe a little pocket change, buy a loaf of bread or something) have been on the internet looking and searching, and I have only partly gotten any information on any of it. I suggest is that since y’all are on the internet, you could do some searching for it too.
Copyrights are good for the life of the person PLUS 75 years at least and then can be renewed. Holladay has copyrights that I’ve seen in 1919 of ships, which would mean they expire 1994 or thereabouts. BUT, keep in mind, the family can renew those copyrights, and they may still be in effect anyway. I have seen Holladay panoramas on military and government websites, but they are never displayed full resolution. They are always a smaller version of them by a long shot. So . . . . . go find out for me!
The other thing that I had not said, is that I have a free blog, and there is a finite amount of space you are allowed with a free blog. Guess what? I have reached my limit. And the only way to be able to post any more graphics is to delete some of my content, or start a new blog, and right now I don’t have the mental energy to do any of it. My energy has a finite amount of space too (grin) So y’all let me know if you find anything about copyrights on Holladay Photo 1918, 1919 or some such. I need help too. I’m a nice person. I deserve some help. Leave a comment instead of the form mail so that I’ll know it’s from my legit people.
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