A North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber sits on an airfield ramp in this wartime photograph. The B-25 entered U.S. Army Air Forces service in 1941 and became one of the most versatile American aircraft of World War II, famous for its role in the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Japan and later widespread use as a low-level strafer and anti-shipping aircraft in the Pacific theater. The plain star insignia visible here, without the red-and-white bars added in mid-1943, places this photograph in the early part of the war. Project: 218472