This photograph captures a North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber in flight, its olive-drab camouflage and plain white star insignia (used before mid-1943) placing the image in the early years of American involvement in World War II. The twin-engine, twin-tailed B-25 became one of the most versatile bombers of the war, famously used in the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Japan and in countless medium-altitude and low-level attack missions across every theater of the conflict. Project: 218468