Famed members of the World War II Doolittle Bombing Raid on Tokyo hold final public reunion - Fox News
Wow, I didn't know any of them were still with us. A real piece of living History.
Good for them, I hope they had a great reunion day.
The B-25s in the video all look like J models with the clear nose instead of the solid nose.
Most of the latter B-25s, the G, H and J models, were set up with multiple heavy machine guns for strafing missions. Depending on how they were configured a solid nose strafing variant B-25 might have eighteen 50 caliber machine guns total with fourteen of them able to point forward. Some of them could also carry rockets and many of the early models were mounted with a 75 mm cannon. The cannon didn't seem to be very useful though so many of those models just had more 50 cals added in the field.
Good picture of the 75 mm cannon but this B-25 doesn't have the flank mounted gunpods. Some B-25 models had the pods removed as the muzzle flash started damaging the fuselage. More armor plate was added to later models or retrofitted on earlier ones.
The light barrel M2s for use in aircraft had a fire rate in the 700 rounds per minute range. That is about 10,000 rounds per minute hitting the target area during a strafing run for the B-25s with fourteen forward guns.
EDIT
Just to put that in perspective the maximum fire rate on GAU-8 on an A10 is 4,200 rounds per minute. Of course the GAU-8 has a much higher muzzle velocity firing larger 30 mm DU rounds but for pure rate of fire hard to beat a B-25J.
This is a B-25J with the fourteen forward guns. There are eight in the nose, four in pods on either side of the cockpit and then the two in the dorsal turret.
So I accidentally typed in Sucker Punch B-25 instead of Sunday Punch to get those photos and apparently in that terrible Sucker Bunch movie there is a B-25 fighting a dragon.
Now I guess I have to watch that movie even though everyone says it is terrible.
