These walk-around photos were taken at the RAF Museum London in Hendon in 2019. They show a North American B-25J Mitchell, USAAF serial 44-29366, displayed with the fictitious serial 340-37 from its role in the 1979 film Hanover Street. The Mitchell was one of the most versatile medium bombers of the Second World War, serving in every theatre and with numerous Allied air forces. The RAF operated it as the Mitchell II and III, with squadrons of No. 2 Group flying low-level tactical strikes over occupied Europe ahead of D-Day. The type is perhaps best known for the Doolittle Raid of April 1942, when sixteen B-25s launched from USS Hornet to bomb Tokyo — the first American air raid on Japan.
Built at Kansas City in September 1944 and delivered to the USAAF, 44-29366 never flew in combat, spending its American military career as a TB-25N navigation trainer before being struck off charge in 1958. Sold onto the civilian market, it was converted into a fire bomber and later acquired for Hollywood, flying in the 1970 film Catch-22 and subsequently the 1979 Harrison Ford film Hanover Street — in which it appeared as "Marvellous Miriam" — before being acquired by Warbirds of Great Britain at Blackbushe. It was loaned to the RAF Museum in 1982 and has been on display at Hendon since, wearing the film serial it carried during Hanover Street.