North American B-45 Tornado series

This is the start of a very lengthy project to detail the operational histories of the entire series of North American B-45 Tornado jet bombers/recon planes of the 1950s. While their service life was short, just a few years at most, they provided essential protection from the Russian horde during the early Cold War, and provided America with valuable experience in jet bomber operations.

There were three distinct production models of the B-45 Tornado...

Click the link below to go to the model section.

B-45A Tornado

B-45C Tornado

RB-45C Tornado

For their assistance in various parts of this project, I would like to give thanks to the following individual people...

Joseph F. Baugher for the serial number list
Clive Turner
Alan Johnson
Tjalling Boelman

Thanks!