I am showing it to my students this morning. We are reading Catch-22, the Mitchell is what they flew.

I’m 6’7 I think the only place I could fit is the front turret lol

That rear set of guns was so nicely balanced

no they weremnt brave - they just didnt grew up in a luxury live where everything is done for a healthy life it was done because it has to be done and comfort wasnt a factor in this Wartime

@@Martinlegend I'd like to see you on board a bomber, flying over Europe on a bombing run, getting picked off by German air and flak. You were practically waiting for either luck or death to knock on your door. All it took was one blast of flak and you'd be free falling from thousands of feet.

@@ataka2142 no im from Germany so i would rather be the guy who sends a 12.8 cm shell up into the sky

@@Martinlegend You are not really proving a point here buddy. There were brave men on both sides. Why can't you accept that?

@@ataka2142 because the people today cant imagine how it was

Entel Feridun let me guess. You’re a fellow scale modeler?

@@sparetime2475 HELL YEA

You're welcome. A wartime B25 would have a lot more equipment than shown in this video, so even more cramped. Every winter during the maintenance season more original equipment gets added to this B25, Miss Mitchell. She now has the complete radio stack and desk between the bomb bay and waist guns, ammo cans for tail and waist guns, armor plates around waist guns, and various other small meters and instruments. Commemorative Air Force, Minnesota Wing, maintains this B25. They have many others around the country, check out their website perhaps one is close and you can see one in person.

that’s exactly why i came here too! thanks for posting :)

It is so cool how there are so many flyable B-25s that they allow tourists to play around with the turrets like this. All the remaining B-24s, B-17s, and B-29s' owners don't allow people to play with those precious rare turrets like this haha. It seems like B-25 turrets are a dime a dozen. Sadly there are no flyable B-26s anymore. There is one airworthy B-26 that last flew in 1998 but it is grounded as a museum piece due to a cautious owner. It is really sad how the medium bombers like B-25s and B-26s' veterans groups and the U.S. military itself don't provide for the public easy access to extremely detailed reports of missions and MACRs (Missing Aircraft Reports) that explain every single lost medium bomber like they do for B-24s, B-29s, and B-17s. All we ever get in documentaries and books and movies are "they were involved in anonymous boring generic 'tactical bombing' missions" involving low-altitude diving attacks on tanks, warships, and flak artillery 500 miles away as if that is somehow not dangerous at all like strategic bombing for heavy bombers haha. I have a feeling in about 20 years all the currently airworthy WWII heavy bombers will have to be grounded because of how rare they are (only 3 or 4 operational/airworthy B-17s, 2 for B-24s, and 2 for B-29s) and how many accidents since 2011 (three of them to be exact) there are involving the famous B-17s. We will truly appreciate medium bombers like B-25s at airshows due to them being able to fly as long as however long a B-52 can fly (thanks to how there are so many airworthy B-25s that fly casually at airshows and for tourists today) and we thankfully have the Doolittle Raid to keep the average person entertained and recognize B-25s' claim to fame when they see B-25s and no more heavy bombers in the sky.

My dad was a flight mechanic and tail gunner aboard a Mitchell B-25 in the Pacific during WW2. I guess he might have known your father. They were heroes.

Im 18 years old and currently a car mechanic. But near my hometown is a airport where a B-25J is stationated. Since the B-25 is my favourite plane, my goal is to become a plane mechanic for that B-25. That B-25 is a very special B-25, because it is completely demilitarized and the front canopy has a comfortable leather bench in it.

God bless you and your father!

My father fly a b-29

Eww, a dutch.

Hello, Netherlands…. thanks to all men, women and children who helped so many escape and survive a horrifying experience! God bless. 🇺🇸

@@e.conboy4286 : Thank you! God bless you too.

For both turrets too.

Yes there is an interruptor, in the base of the turret there is a series of disks that rotate with the turret. The discs have protrusions that cam out micro switches that break the circuit that energize solenoids that fire the guns. The disc protrusions mimic the prop arc and tail so operation is seem less to the gunner. This feature is common to the American turrets and probably also in other country's ww2 designs as well.

Additionally many items present in combat are not in this video like armor plate, ammo cans, radio sets, life rafts, parachutes, etc so emergency exit would be further hampered - and impossible on the low level strafer flights the 345th specialized in. If you have not read Air Apaches by Jay Stout check it out, a great book about the 345th and their B25s.

@@Type99mgAnd... I just now purchased Air Apaches from Amazon. Hardcover, because I know I'll love it. Thank you for the recommendation Brother !

more like the b-17

It's not a creature

More like a light cruiser.

One flexible .50 in the nose manned and aimed by the bombardier. If the b25 was not a lead plane the norden was often removed to allow this gun more movement (trailing planes would drop on the norden equipped lead plane's signal). The two fixed guns on the lower right were aimed and fired by the pilot.

noticed that,especially when you look at the views...must be a gremlin in there ...

There is a mechanical interrupter in nearly all power turrets that cuts out the firring circuit when the guns swing near interference points. The flexible hand moved guns would require trigger discipline alone.

@@Type99mg Thanks NT. I figured it must be something like that.

At least one escape route in each crew area. Tail turret upper canopy jettisons. Rear area floor hatch (main entrance from ground) and a side escape. Above bomb bay a hatch into the bay. Upper turret out floor hatch (main entrance from ground) below the turret. Pilot compartment top hatch jettisons. In the nose a side hatch jettisons. And for when all else fails axes around the plane to make a hole in aluminum or plexiglass.

No they don't, F-15 is 43 feet wide and the B-25 is 68 feet.

Fire interrupters are on almost all powered turrets. The B25 Bendix powered upper turret has a system of cams on the base with protrusions that correspond to hazard points on the aircraft, when the guns swing into those hazard points the cam protrusion engages a micro switch that cuts out the gun firing circuit. For the flexible hand moved guns the only safety is the gunner's judgement...and I'm sure accidents happened in the heat of combat. Not only their own plane but also others close in formation.

@@Type99mg thankyou. I was sure there was something. I just didn't know what.

Yeah, and remember that most of the things we use nowadays are developed from wars. Just like the Internet

chippledon1 not for yossarian

And deadliest one too

And just an incredible view.

That's the bombadier's position

Rocketassistedgoat g4m. g5n. ki 49. ki 61. (or 64 i get confused ones a fighter ones bomber). then the boatplanes. h6k and h8k. all med to heavy bombers.

All of those are either fighters, or 1930's designs. The Japanese didn't have anything modern and comparable to the B-25, 'till the Ginga. It was one of their failings, much like how the Germans never developed a strategic bomber.

again g4m ki 49 both rwim engine bombers. ki 64 twin wngine bomber. h6k 4 engine h8k 4 engine. g5n 4 engine. please do some research the b 25 came around in 41 g4m was around in the 30s. also they had ki 21 and were using it in the china campaighn

then its sad that they did thier jobs BETTER than a b 25. longer range more payload and many a time bettter defencive armorment. and again if your a dumbass who thinks the war started in 41 you have no place in this argument.

and finally ki 64 is a bpmber. look it up. youll see very quickly. ki 61 is the fighter.

It's very interesting. Take your bored crap somewhere else.