NORTH KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This Memorial Day weekend, the B-25 History Project is unveiling a piece of World War II history with an important tie to Kansas City. B-25 bombers were aircraft first made ...

SACRIFICE SPURRED ON THE WAR EFFORT HER MARTIN: BEFORE B-25 BOMBERS FILLED THE SKY, DURING WORLD WAR 2. THEY HAD TO BE TEST FLOWN AFTER ASSEMBLY IN KCK’S FAIRFAX PLANT. FROM RUNWAYS BUILT ADJACENT TO ...

On August 19th, 1940, the North American B-25 "Mitchell" performed its first flight. It would become the most versatile, widely used, and overall best medium-range bomber of World War II. The B-25 ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Soon, drivers coming over the U.S. 69 bridge into the Fairfax District in Kansas City, Kansas, could see the silhouette of a B-25 bomber stretching over Seventh Street Trafficway.

The B-25 was first designed in 1940 and was intended to be the United States’ medium bomber workhorse. On paper, the B-25 was not particularly spectacular: it had two engines, a pencil-like fuselage, ...

AND SHAWNEE COUNTIES HONORING THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE DIED IN SERVICE. FOR OUR COUNTRY WAS CERTAINLY THE MISSION. THIS WEEKEND. FOR ONE TEAM, THEY ARE DEDICATED TO REMEMBERING A LITTLE KNOWN PIECE ...

Pilots start the engines of the B-25 “Berlin Express” at The Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Friday. (Nick Rohlman/The Gazette) Buy Photo CEDAR RAPIDS — During the same week that World War II ...

More than 60 years ago, the Monongahela River pulled off a vanishing trick that sure makes Harry Houdini’s stunts look like child’s play. In January 1956, a U.S. Air Force B-25 bomber made an ...

A U.S. Army Air Force B-25 bomber, attempting to maneuver over New York City in a heavy fog, flew into the side of the Empire State Building on this date 75 years ago. All three aboard the plane and ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The bomber’s solid design helped turn the tide for the United States world-wide. The B-25 was first designed in 1940 and was intended to be the United States’ medium ...