North American's B-25 Mitchell bomber is given the patented Detail & Scale treatment in this 1999 Squadron/Signal release. The B-25 saw combat worldwide, serving as a medium bomber, low-level gunship and night intruder. Bert Kinzey gives the reader an up-close-and-personal tour of this versatile warbird.D&S Volume 60 devotes 80 pages to describing and illustrating the major USAAF Mitchell bomber and photo-recce variants - the B-25B, -C, -D, -J, F-10, etc. along with the USN/USMC PBJ models. Vintage and contemporary b&w and color photographs supply general and close-up images of each model. Don Greer supplies two pages of color profiles.As always, Kinzey's text is crisp, authoritative and informative. Realizing that previous B-25 illustrations were sometimes incorrect, Kinzey had Lloyd S. Jones create three-views that are the most accurate drawings of the Mitchell yet seen.Like all D&S titles, B-25 MITCHELL IN DETAIL discusses development and combat history but, if you're interested in lots of 'yank and bank' action, they're not what you want. However, they are accurate and informative, nuts-and-bolts guides to famous warbirds. Recommended.

 

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