Warbirds

Engine

There were three WWII bombers visiting Moffett Field this weekend.

You’re looking at the port side engine of a B-25J Mitchell.

The B-25′s not as famous as the B-17 and B-24, however, they were used in Jimmy Doolittle’s famous raid on Tokyo, and blasted the hell out of Imperial Japanese shipping.

I also met Jimmy Doolittle’s grandaugher, Jonna Doolittle Hoopps, who wrote a book on her grandparents.

And dammit, I should had taken a photo of her with the book.

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This entry was written by Bill Humphries, posted on June 3, 2006 at 4:12 pm, filed under places and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.