Pappy's Folly, the first B25 "strafer" in the image below. That's 8 guns and originally they had 3 more under the fuselage but everytime they fired the nose gear door came off and they also had trouble with the ammo feeds so they were discarded.
Here's the deal Krusty, from my point of view, and that's the history aspect of it. The battle of the Bismarck Sea was these early Strafers. All the Rabaul runs were these early strafers. There's one from Toad's Dad's outfit that flew 180 combat missions.
Sure the late J would be cool, but it didn't do the dirty work and wouldn't fit for nearly the number of scenarios that the early 25s would. Also, if you look at wartime photos of operational solid nose J's they don't seem to have the cheek guns. It's just the nose guns so it's still 8.
And if for no other reason then Toad and the other guy in this thread whose father's flew these strafers, it would seem fitting, if we ever get a 25 that it would be one of those modified C/D birds. The paint schemes on those would be something to see once the skinners got going too and wouldn't it be kinda cool to see Toad out flying his Dad's bird?
