The B-25 continued to be the preferred medium bomber in the Pacific until the war’s end.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The B-25 was an all-around excellent aircraft; it lacked any serious vulnerabilities, and its configuration was varied during the war to best fit its requirements.
During the 1920s, U.S. Army Air Service commander Brig. Gen. William C. “Billy” Mitchell drove himself into an early grave while frantically trying to convince the ground-bound generals of the U.S. Army that the airplane was the weapon of the future.
Mitchell’s efforts reached the point of insubordination, for which he was court-martialed in the fall of 1925 and suspended from further service for five years. The verdict led Mitchell to resign from the Army, and he soon succumbed to the ill health his battle had earned for him. But his name would live on in the tactics he had advocated and in the bomber that was named in his honor.
World War II Drama Why America Was So Bad at Air Warfare In 1941
From mid-1944, thanks to the introduction of better fighters and the use of aggressive, realistic offensive fighter doctrines, American airmen attained not the air superiority they sought, but total air supremacy over the whole of western Europe.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Because of U.S. budgetary concerns and belief in isolationism, the United States began the Second World War lightyears behind in fighter tactics. It took them two long years to finally begin defeating the Nazis over Europe.
The popular conception of the struggle in the air over northern Europe during World War II is of squadrons of sleek fighters racing over the German heartland to protect contrailed streams of lumbering bombers stretching beyond sight. This is as it was during the second half of America’s air war against Germany, but it was as far from the truth as it is possible to get at the start of that great aerial crusade. It took