The B-24 Liberator was a powerful symbol of US industrial might, with more than 18000 produced by the war's end. They flew ...
The B-24 Liberator is known for its service during ... The aircraft went on to become the most-produced bomber in military ...
The first piece of B-24 was completed at Willow Run two days after the attack. But Edsel had promised that the massive bombers would take flight in May 1942. After numerous delays and production ...
Francis Houlihan, small town Iowa grocery man, only five years removed from his high school graduation, found himself 85 ...
Designed as a replacement bomber for the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator, the Superfortress was built to last in the Pacific Theatre. As tensions between Japan and the U.S. were heating up ...
The B-24 Liberator was the most produced US aircraft ... Most Carpetbagger missions were flown in bombers retrofitted to drop spies and supplies instead of bombs. They were painted black to ...
Crashed bombers and bodies left a horrifying scene ... As he approached his target over Ploesti, his B-24 was hit by an anti-aircraft shell and caught fire. Instead of attempting an emergency ...
Although most of these airframes were fighters, a substantial fleet of bombers was also introduced. Roughly 13,000 B-17 Flying Fortresses, 18,000 B-24 Liberators, 10,000 B-25 Mitchells and 4,000 B ...
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a train station in restive southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 24 people, including ...
Photo courtesy the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency In mid-March, the Department of Defense announced that it had recovered the remains of a Ford City native who piloted a crippled B-24 bomber ...
"We must be the arsenal of democracy." The B-24 bomber, dubbed the Liberator, would become a mainstay of that arsenal. The hearty bomber saw service in all theaters of the war but played an ...