B-25 Mitchell - T-shirt Robin Olds - MIG Killer Gordon H Austin with nose

Gordon H Austin with nose art of 'Lighthouse Louie'

The Royal Air Force and French Navy took on the type in the late 1950s

The V Bombers would destroy Warsaw Pact targets such as airbases and command centres ahead of the US SAC nuclear strikes

From air power artist Peter Van Stigt this illustration shows the a Spitfire preparing to tip the gyro's of the doodle bug

B-25 Mitchell - T-shirt Robin Olds - MIG Killer Gordon H Austin with noseNorth American B 25 Mitchell The Mitchell entered military service in 1941 as a medium bomber. The B 25 served in all theatres of world war II with notable operations such as the Doolittle Raids launched from the USS Hornet 4 months after Pearl Harbor.