We lost a neighbor last April who was in the China Burma theater as a B-25 tail gunner/mechanic. 99 years old. He went fast. Within 48 hrs. It was time to go. Even though the house sold I will always see Fred sitting on the front porch and remember the stories he would tell.
One of the tactics Army B-25 pilots perfected in the Pacific was ‘’skip bombing’’. It involved having the B-25 at just the right speed and altitude and they would drop five hundred pound bombs and ‘’skip’’ them like a stone off the water and into the sides of Japanese destroyers and barges.