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Sun Oct 12, 2014 7:13 am
APG85 wrote:What became of the Mantz B-25...?
There were actually several. Two for sure, and I think three, though not all at the same time. I believe at least one and maybe all of them are still around.
Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:49 am
5th A.F. Air Apaches 'bat-nosed' schemes. Mean lookin' suckas!
Bill
Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:36 am
Mantz had 2 camera planes and as I recall one crashed on a drug run after being sold.
Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:05 am
Snake45 wrote:APG85 wrote:What became of the Mantz B-25...?
There were actually several. Two for sure, and I think three, though not all at the same time. I believe at least one and maybe all of them are still around.
One of them WAS in San Antonio with a John Lister, I believe. Don't know if he still has it.
Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:36 am
Here's one of Tallmantz's:
http://www.warbirdregistry.org/b25regis ... 34643.htmlIt was a rare H, too, not the much more common J.
Sun Oct 12, 2014 1:43 pm
Tons of info on the camera B-25s and everything else related to Paul Mantz and Frank Tallman... Scott Thompson's Tallmantz website
http://www.aerovintage.com/tallmantz.htm
Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:48 pm

It's the one you............
1. pick yourself 2. talk the owner into 3. help apply 4. fly around in for 10 years.
just saying................................................
Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:24 pm
How about sharing the wartime version Jack?
Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:18 pm

the original D of the 390th BS New Guinea 1944.

the 2nd Rabbit a J 390th BS PI 1945. Note the 165 gallon dt under the wing.
Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:59 pm
Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:01 pm
Photo bomb!
Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:21 pm
Jack Cook wrote:Photo bomb!


Direct photo bomb of a Japanese ship by a B-25 of the 3rd BG.
Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:37 pm
If I gotta pick one? ...

FHC B-25 (Chris Parmeter photo)
Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:01 am
90th Sq 3rd Attack Group.. The handiwork of "Pappy" Gunn and his sidekick Sgt Evans. Photo's courtesy of the 3rd's family members.
the 90th's fireball: Ed Larner..




Jock Henebry
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Hemiman on Tue Oct 14, 2014 11:29 am, edited 2 times in total.
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