Stoney's Bomber Mission To Mexico - Catch-22

[gary1954]

Now I got to find a copy of the movie and watch it again.
Robbie

Heres a little reminder, including a mass takeoff in this clip.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kLNnWw1YHGg&feature=related

P.S. Stoney , I've always loved the down the runway shot of the mass takeoff, I thought you all purposefully were all over the place rather than a neat formation takeoff , after your story I now know different !
Thanks again.

Before I read of the Catch 22 Air Force in *pukes* Air Classics, the Late Great Frank Tallman told me that the cross winds at location were very bad, and d a m n e d near dangerous

[ALAN.L]

Nope never seen it!

Thanks for the clip though Martin,I shall definately have to see the rest now!

[gary1954]

Nope never seen it!

Thanks for the clip though Martin,I shall definately have to see the rest now!

YOU!!! have never seen Catch 22??
SOMEBODY Please help me up from the floor

[gary1954]

Which of the aircraft were painted up as M&M Enterprises aircraft for the contact bombing by the Germans to bomb the AAF base?

[makin' boost]

Great thread w/great story and photos ................. I'm on the hunt for the movie.
Keep up to good work, it is magnificant,

Woody

[gary1954]

The movie does start to slow down (at least for me) when they get into town,

[gary1954]

MITCHELLS OVER MEXICO

or 130 combat free hours in a B-25 over the Sea of Cortez

written and photos by L.P."Stoney" Stonich

"It's a Catch-22 situation". How many times have you
heard that phrase? How many of you remember reading the
satire "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller, based on a B-25
squadron in the Mediterranean in WW II. Paramount Studios
made a movie based on this novel in 1969.


I read the Book 5 Times, and have used the phrase, thats a Catch 22 situation many times during my lifetime

Catch-22 went through several title changes before Heller decided on the number 22. It was originally "Catch-18" but Heller changed it when Leon Uris's novel Mila 18 came out.

Heller later rejected "Catch-14" because 14 simply wasn't a "funny number." He settled on 22 because of its repeating numbers echo the repetition of certain phrases and scenes in the book. (Source)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jh ... xml&page=1

[Jerry O'Neill]

Which of the aircraft were painted up as M&M Enterprises aircraft for the contact bombing by the Germans to bomb the AAF base?

I know that one of the "M&M" painted B-25's was the Cavanaugh Museum's "How Boot That". When it was first flown to the Pennsylvania for outside display display in a cemetary, it arrived in it's "M&M" Colors.
Jerry

[gary1954]

Ah, that would be
6F B-25J-15NC 43-28925 (N7687G), Superman

Thanks
I wonder what the others were

[tom d. friedman]

the scene where colonel cathcart is taking a dump when the padre comes in is hilarious!!

[tom d. friedman]

i flew in the air classics magazine pacific princess b-25 at the corsair gathering in mt. comfort indiana 2003. a 1 hour flight / pic shoot w/ jim read's corsair. i was in the shell of the top turret. is she 1 of the birds in catch 22?? if so which 1??

[Curtis Block]

Yup, it's a Catch 22 bird, don't know which one though.

[gary1954]

Standby see below

[gary1954]

i flew in the air classics magazine pacific princess b-25 at the corsair gathering in mt. comfort indiana 2003. a 1 hour flight / pic shoot w/ jim read's corsair. i was in the shell of the top turret. is she 1 of the birds in catch 22?? if so which 1??

6G B-25J-5NC 43-28204 (N9856C), Booby Trap 39856C , Olive Drab
B-25J, Aero Traders, Chino, CA (A) Photo by Wiliam T. Larkins which he sent to me in the late somewhere between 1977 and 1981