Photo Gallery - Aircraft
Another ONE of the Japanese surrender planes.
Japanese Betty bomber that was painted white with green crosses to indicate that the bomber was flying the surrender delegation as per instructions from General MacArthur.
Pacific Prowler. Standing, left to right: Sgt. Barry R Sously, Sgt. W.W. Tobias, Sgt. Ben W. Clark. Kneeling, left to right: Sgt. Patrick Troutman, Sgt. Paul W. Hopp, Sgt. W. P. Scoggins.
A rare color picture of an 823rd squadron B-25 at Clark Field. (USAF)
A 38th B-25. Notice anything unusual about this aircraft? (E. Connor, H. Witcher)
From the book "B-25 Mitchell in Detail" written by Burt Kinzey and published by Detail & Scale. It is an excellent soft cover book with 78 pages of information relating to the B-25 Mitchell. It has 200 photographs (61 in color!), 2 pages of color profiles, and 14 pages of line drawings. This book is available at booksellers nationwide. ( Vol.60, stock # 8260) They have kindly given us permission to use the three photographs below on our website.
A beautiful shot of an 823rd B-25 sitting on an airfield in New Guinea (Durand?). This has the style of noseart that was used through most of the war. (Courtesy of Sea Bird Publishing, Inc.)
One of the Japanese surrender Betty's landing at IE Shima.
This looks to be a picture of "Indian II" of the 71st. (J. Collom/M. Collom)
A flight of B-25s winding up and ready to take off from Charters Towers facility in Australia.
Cessna AT-17 twin engine advanced training aircraft.
71st Squadron B-25s peeling for an attack. (E.Connor, H. Witcher)
The right main landing gear on B-25C-NA, 41-12898 collapsed upon landing at Port Moresby. This Mitchell was assigned to the 38th Bomb Group.......( USAFM via Detail and Scale.) Permission by Burt Kinzey. NOTE: Original photo lost during website transfer. Please contact the webmaster if you have this photo.
Filthy Lil of the 71st Squadron in the early days of the war. (M. Wilkes)
38th Bomb Group troop and cargo Waco glider!
Grass Cutter
Filthy Lil was later stripped and renamed "Hardships". She was used as a transport and made shuttle runs back and forth to Australia. (E. Connor, H. Witcher)
Harriet receiving engine maintenance. Does anyone know what squadron "Harriet" belonged to? (E. Connor, H. Witcher)
Indian II of the 71st. in flight. (E. Connor, H. Witcher)
A great picture of a very early style tiger nose art on the nose of an 823rd B-25H.
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