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Navy Lieutenant Edgar G. Osborne looked at his watch. It was 8:20 in the morning of April 18, 1942. The flight deck officer flagged Lt. Col. Doolittle ...

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 insubordinat...