One of the most recognizable aircraft of World War II, the B-24 saw action around the world and produced by the thousands. [.
He and his fellow crew members flew in a B-24 Liberator, a heavy bomber, out of Manduria, Italy. By the time he deployed, the ...
On Sept. 4, 1943, the Royal Canadian Air Force's B-24 liberator bomber was carrying a crew of four when it ran into problems ...
Some modernized versions of China’s H-6 bomber are now capable of launching ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads ...
It is a mystery 80 years in the making. On the early morning hours of February 18th, 1944, the "Getaway Gertie" a B-24 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...