A Gathering of Eagles
…Well, Mitchells more precisely…
Forty B-25’s gather in celebration of the 6th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.
(h/t Rich R.)
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Pretty sweet. I didn’t realize that there were so many flyable B-25’s around.
I wish I had known about this in advance, I’m driving distance from Dayton, OH…I’m fairly certain that’s where this is. I think I see the USAF museum in the background in some shots.
I liked the PBJ “Devil Dog”.
Indeed, I negelected to mention it was at Wright-Patt AFB.
w/r, SJS