[Milsurplus] B25 Aircraft Maintenance Manual - tail gunner!

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

On 11/2/06, Joe Foley <redmenaced at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I asked him if  he flew on the ones with the big
> cannon stuck out the front,... he informed me that it
> was a 75mm gun and the recoil was HUGE when it fired!

Believe that was the 'J' model. Also had a number of machine guns
strapped to the side of the fuselage in pods. Didn't know it was a
75mm cannon though, thought it was smaller. I do recall hearing or
reading that the cyclic rate was slow, but each time it fired the
aircraft seemd to come to almost a standstill from the recoil. That
had to raise hell with the airframe over time.

There's a guy around here with B-25J on his plate, always wanted to
catch up with him and have a chat. Old feller, has a lot of patriotic
stuff on his vehicle, hat, etc so I'm guessing he's the real deal.

~ Todd  KA1KAQ