Three B-25 Mitchell medium bombers fly in formation above patchwork American farmland in this WWII-era photograph. Though preserved within a China-Burma-India theater collection, the rural, contour-plowed landscape below points to a stateside training or ferry flight rather than a combat mission -- a reminder that before crews ever faced the mountains and jungles of Burma and China, they logged countless hours mastering formation flying over the fields of home. Project: 218086