This manual is the text for training as a B-25 pilot and airplane commander.<br />The manual serves the dual purpose of a training checklist and working handbook.<br />HISTORY OF THE MITCHELL BOMBER B-25<br />First Army airplane to sink an enemy sub.<br />First medium bomber to fly from a carrier deck.<br />First warplane to pack a 75-mm. cannon.<br />It all started when the Army asked for designs of a medium bomber to be submitted. That was on 25 January, 1939. Forty days later the B-25 was born!