1943: TOS USAAF as a B-25D. Later converted to F-10 photo recon aircraft; assigned to the 6th Air Force in South America. 1948: Redesignated RB-25D. By 1952: 3425th Instruction Squadron/3415th Technical Training Group, Lowry AFB. 3/52: Assigned to Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, for storage. 30 Dec '57: USAF requested to have the plane modified to resemble Jimmy Doolittle's plane flown on the Tokyo raid in April 1942. 2/58: Ferried to North American Aviation, Inglewood, CA, for conversion. 4/58: Flew to Las Vegas, NV for the Doolittle reunion before continuing to the USAFM, Patterson Field, OH.
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