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Designing the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The manufacturing of the B-24 Liberator was a combined effort between the ...
Leonard Dowling, who turned 100 on June 21, shared some of his WWII experience about getting shot down in a Liberator bomber ...
But even the US Army Air Force accepted the B-24, which would be named the Liberator, the design gained the interest of ...
DELAND — With two engines shredded by anti-aircraft guns, the 60,000-pound American B24 Liberator bomber named "Sweet Pea" and its frightened crew hurtled toward certain death over Germany ...
Consolidated Aircraft improved on the B-17 design to create and build the B-24 Liberator. Consolidated even operated a plant at the Tucson Airport where they made modifications to the B-24 ...
While the plane became the most produced bomber aircraft in the war, ... (May 14) since my father was a B-24 Liberator pilot in the South Pacific during World War II.
On Aug. 1, the bombardier was serving on a B-24 Liberator aircraft that was hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire during "Operation Tidal Wave," a large-scale mission by Allied forces to target oil ...
He co-piloted a B-24 Liberator aircraft nicknamed "Aire Lobo," which was shot down during Operation TIDAL WAVE in Romania in 1943. All 10 people aboard were killed.
The Tennyson crew pose for a photo in front of their B-24 Liberator aircraft stateside before deploying to the Pacific. First Lt. Herbert Tennyson is in the front row, second from the left.
He was killed in action on April 26, 1945, after the B-24J Liberator aircraft he was aboard crashed near Hüttenberg, Austria, while en route to a bombing mission in northern Italy.
He was killed in action April 8, 1944, at age 31, after the B-24H “Liberator” aircraft he was aboard was shot down by enemy fighter aircraft fire while on a bombing mission to Brunswick, Germany.