B-25 Mitchell

Images from a fly-over to confirm bombing effectiveness on a bridge in southern China or Indochina, during WWII.

A fortified karst rock outcrop, certainly with a Japanese troops dug in or nearby, is bombed in southern China or Indochina during WWII. Notice the bomb crater to the left--the site has been bombed before.

B-25 Mitchell bombers bomb a small town along a river in the CBI. Note the squaire remnants of a historic city wall. The town shows previous bomb or war damage.

Aerial view as B-25 Mitchell bombers bomb a barren stretch of the Burma Road in 1944. Strangely no traffic is obvious on the road, so maybe this is just an attempt to slow down the enemy by damaging the road. Notice the encampment on the right.

A fly-by of a rural area with a bombed bridge in the background, probably in SW China, Indochina, or the China-Burma border region.

B-25 Mitchell bombers--flying at a very low level--attack a tidy harbor somewhere in SW China, Indochina, or Burma during WWII.

B-25s fly in front of Yishan/Ishan 宜山 (now Yizhou) in Guangxi province, SW China, among Karst peaks during the Japanese Ichigo campaign of summer and fall 1944. Towns along the Ichigo route were bombed by American planes as the Japanese moved into them, or sometimes in advance, to deny the resources of the towns to the incoming Japanese. The Japanese...

A B-25 Mitchell bomber parked in a revetment in southern China, at the American base at Liuzhou, during WWII.

A formation of B-25 Mitchell bombers in flight in the CBI.

B-25 Mitchell bombers fly in the CBI, probably over SW China or Burma, during WWII.