Pima Air Museum

About a week ago our homeschooling group went to the Pima Air Museum. Me and my little bro went, it was worth it. I've been there before I don't remember it though. They had a building of WWII (the planes) it was just neat seeing the airplanes that dropped the atomic bombs ( it might of been a replica). They had TONS and TONS of airplanes.. of course. It was Veteran's Day, that day and we said happy Veteran's Day to everyone that served ( who ever we saw). I think that its just amazing seeing people that were in the military that served in WWI, WWII, Vietnam, and even today's, I love listening to my Grandpa's stories that he has to tell when he was in the air force. I could go for ever.. I'm going off of the subject lol. We spent about four or five hours there..like I said it was worth it. So ya here are some pictures hope ya all enjoy! Em♫

They even have a smaller plane, it's called the Bumble Bee it's TINY!

This is the plane that former President JFK traveled in you could go in it and the Presidents bathroom has a couch in, I thought I would just let you know..lol.

This is my favorite plane, it is a B25 Bomber it was used to attack Japan after Pearl Harbor was attacked (December 7, 1941) there was 16 of these on a aircraft (USS Hornet), they left April 18 1942, it was noted as The Dolittle Raid. The bomber held a crew of 4-6 people and a bomb playload up to 6,000 pounds. Each of them carried four differently constructed 500 pound bombs 5 of the bombs had Japanese "friendship" medals wired on them ( they got it before the war). Twelve 50 caliber browning machine guns surrounded the B25 bomber to aid in enemy attacks. Some versions of the B25 bomber were armed with a 75mm cannon if the nose of the plane.To decrease weight (and thus increase range), the bombers' armament was reduced. Each bomber launched with two .50 caliber machine gun in the turret and in an upper turret and a .30-caliber machine gun in the nose to increase range. The guy that was in charge of this was, LT. Colonel James "Jimmy" Dolittle.

While they were 650 miles away from Japan, it was sighted by Japanese picket boat, they warned Japan. So Dolittle and Hornet skipper Captian Marc Mitscher decided to launch 10 hours early and 170 miles further than Japan then planned. Dolittle's aircraft had 467 ft of take off distance, The pilots, all volunteers, had to learn to take off at 60 miles an hour rather than 90 and in one-third of the B-25's usual takeoff distance. . All of the 16 B25 bombers took off safely. They arrived about noon and bombed 10 military and industrial targets in Tokyo, two on Yokohama and one each in, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Kobe and Osaka, no bomber was shot down at that time.

15 out the 16 aircraft proceeded southwest along the southern of Japan and across the East China Sea, toward eastern China. One B25 extremely low on fuel, headed instead of the closer land mass of Russia. They all were low on fuel, and they either had to bailing out over eastern China or crashed landing along the Chinese coast. 15 aircraft reached the Chinese coast after 13 hours of flight and crashed landed or bailed out.

Well that is all I'm going to say about that, hehe I know it a lot of stuff, but oh well I liked writing a little thing a bout it. Hope you all enjoyed this. Em ♫