On this day in aviation history, December 29, 1939, the first prototype of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator made its first flight. In time, the Liberator would become the most widely produced ...

Ford and his top engineer, Charles Sorensen, believed Consolidated Aircraft had "created a hell ... "To compare a Ford V8 with a four-engine Liberator bomber was like matching a garage with ...

Scientists studied genetic material called mitochondrial DNA. In September 2023, they officially concluded the remains were Shostak’s. He was finally, as the news release from the Defense POW/MIA ...

U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sergeant Felix J. Shostak is finally returning home after his B-24H 'Liberator' was struck by anti-aircraft fire during a bombing raid near Boussicourt, France in August ...