Aeroplane Magazine Combat Machines 2: B-25 Mitchell Special Issue

The second volume in Key Publishing’s Combat Machines series explores the legendary B-25 Mitchell light bomber, which also excelled in various other roles.

Following the high-quality design and format of last year’s Combat Machines 1: B-17G, Volume 2 offers period photos with informative captions, and extensive history text to tell the Mitchell’s story.

The type’s development is studied, ahead of chapters covering many facets of the B-25’s wartime genesis…from the famous Doolittle raid on Japan, and the USAAF unit’s efforts that inspired Joseph Heller’s novel Catch 22, to strafing in the Pacific and US Marine Corps operations, export users and a very personal focus on the Pacific Theatre B-25 ‘Dirty Dora’.

This is an all-encompassing view of the Mitchell, across 84 pages, which also provides many colour profiles and extensive model kit, decal, accessory and book listings. It’s the ideal reference to accompany Airfix’s new-tool 1/72 B-25 kit later this year.