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Guessing this is another unusual field modification.

 

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Excellent info sir!

 

• Jan 23, 2015

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Thanks David, you might find this interesting as I did, it has the bomb bay doors modified to carry a pair of 4.5 inch rockets for a B-25. Kind of reminds me of the James Bond type stuff. Nothing like a little extra forward fire power by opening the bomb bays with a pair of rockets. Added manual for 4.5 inch rockets for aircraft as well located under the pictures. Another interesting set of pictures of a rotary system tested on a B-25 with these rockets. Pictures from the book B-25 The Ultimate Look by William Wolf.

 

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The wing mounted 5 inch rocket where mounted on the wings compared to the 4.5 in the previous thread. Also found the drawing for the special rack used to suspend the 2000 pound bomb in the bomb bay for the B-25. Source on that is a Russian B-25 manual.

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Chart says it all, bomb load out with partial fuel tank in bomb bay with bombs.

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• Jan 25, 2015

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Great stuff here, many thanks.

 

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tomo pauk said:

Great stuff here, many thanks.

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Your welcome,

Here is another interesting 4 gun field modification.

 

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• Feb 4, 2015

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Interesting picture from the book WarPath, A story of the 345th Bomb group. Any one see or know about more pictures like this one. The camera was used to take pictures after the B-25 flew by there strafing runs for damage assessments.

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Some other stuff that I had laying around on the B-25C and D models that some may find interesting.

 

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Another interesting use of the B-25. Any one know of any more pictures or better yet the hole in the bottom for which the person dropped please post them.

 

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Installation of the 75mm cannon into a B-25 into the nose.

 

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First one a tail gun mount of a B-25A, second a field modification of a B-25C.

 

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Excellent pictures here Mic, good job (Nice nose art by the way)

 

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Excellent pictures here Mic, good job (Nice nose art by the way)

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thanks Charles!!!!

 

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Nice!

 

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VMB 612 Experimental Sqn PBJ Tail Gun Field Mod

 

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What the heck are those ? Rockets inbedded in the nose ??

 

• Feb 14, 2015

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What the heck are those ? Rockets inbedded in the nose ??

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Charles those are 4.5 inch rockets that where tried and placed in various locations for use to improve forward fire power. If you go to thread 103 of this thread you will find more locations of tried usages of the 4.5 inch and 5 inch rockets

 

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Stug3 that is actually the tail turret of a B-24 bomber and as far as I know never installed on a B-25. The B-24 in the picture is from the aircraft WitchCraft of the Collings Foundation. Link below to a different angle of the aircraft.

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