Champaign Gal

“In the war to come, God will be on the side of the heaviest air force. Don’t forget it. Keep your eyes on the sky!” 

— Brigadier General William ‘Billy’ Mitchell, USAS, back at Langley Field after the Ostfisland was sunk, 20 July 1921. Quoted in the Reader’s Digest magazine, April 1949.

North American B-25J Mitchell, “Champaign Gal” at Urbana Grimes Field (I74), Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In (MERFI)
August 20, 2022.

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