An American B-25 bomber flies at minimum altitude, probably during training/practice of 'low-level attack techniques', for 'skip bombing'. During WWII.

An American B-25 bomber flies at minimum altitude, probably during training/practice of 'low-level attack techniques', for 'skip bombing'. During WWII. See related image here. B-25 pilots of the Tenth Air Force (341st Bomb Group) and Chinese-American Composite Wing (1st Bomb Group) were trained in 'skip bombing' in India during 1943 and 1944.

An image from the Walter S. Polchlopek collection--A man directs traffic in India (top), and a poor elderly woman sits in China. Walter S. Polchlopek, Corporal, was lost on May 20, 1944, over the sea near the south east coast of China, after a B-24 mission to strike Japanese shipping.

Chinese ground crew work on an engine of a B-25 as part of the Chinese-American Overseas Training Unit program at Karachi Air Base, India. September 1943. Image courtesy of Tony Strotman.