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SubmittedMay 20, 2014

With it's landing gear on the way up into it's wheel-wells, the "Show Me" B-25 Mitchell rumbles (and I DO mean RUMBLES!) past the show line during Cape Girardeau's Air Festival. Most famously associated with General Jimmy Doolittle, this type of twin-engined bomber, originally designed as a land-based aircraft, was used in the carrier-launched attack on Japan's homeland during the early months of World War II...

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With it's landing gear on the way up into it's wheel-wells, the "Show Me" B-25 Mitchell rumbles (and I DO mean RUMBLES!) past the show line during Cape Girardeau's Air Festival.

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Most famously associated with General Jimmy Doolittle, this type of twin-engined bomber, originally designed as a land-based aircraft, was used in the carrier-launched attack on Japan's homeland during the early months of World War II.

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