B-25 Mitchell Images – B-25 Mitchell Bomber displayed at Grimes Field
The “Miss Mitchell,” a B-25 Mitchell Bomber, is displayed at Grimes Field, Ohio, April 16. The aircraft and its crew flew from St. Paul, Minn., to participate in commemoration flights for the Doolittle Raiders’ 68th reunion at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The event honors the anniversary of the Doolittle Tokyo Raid. On April 18, 1942, U.S. Army Air Forces Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle’s squad of 16 B-25s bombed targets over Japan in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.