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Bendix Aviation Corp out of Teterboro, NJ bought the B-25 in June of 1946 and used it as a test bed for the next twenty years. It was then bought by Lodwick Aircraft Industries, Lakeland, FL in February 1946 where it was first civilian registered as NX69345. It was delivered to RFC, Walnut Ridge, AR in October 1945. It was built as 45-8835 in August of 1945. Our B-25 was never accepted by the USAAF. It was a reliable plane and while many survived past the war, very few combat veteran B-25’s remain. 50 caliber machine guns controlled by the pilot. Our model is a B-25J which didn’t have a nose gunner but instead had eight. The radio operator, navigator and bombardier could switch off positions if needed to the other gun positions. The plane was equipped with a top turret, waist guns and in later models a nose gun that was operated by the bombardier. The B-25 was crewed by six men pilot, copilot, bombardier or nose gunner, radio operator or waist gunner, flight engineer or navigator and tail gunner. The B-25 gained fame after the Doolittle Raid on April 18th, 1942 in which seventy two B-25’s, lead Colonel James Doolittle, bombed Japan in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It was never used for high altitude bombing like the B-17 Flying Fortress, but was instead used for low leveling bombing and strafing runs. The B-25 was the little brother of the bombing campaign as it was used in every theater during the war and by many of the allied nations.