The American B-24 Liberator bomber sat motionless on the airfield as though awaiting inspection or maintenance from an ...

Leonard Dowling, who turned 100 on June 21, shared some of his WWII experience about getting shot down in a Liberator bomber ...

POOLER, Ga. -- A rare B-24 Liberator is being moved from Barksdale Air Force Base to Georgia. The aircraft, which is part of World War II aviation history, will be restored and become the ...

On June 20, his B-24J “Liberator” bomber collided with another aircraft in formation and crashed into the Baltic Sea near Denmark. While the pilot and co-pilot survived, the rest of the crew, ...

Landing gear from a World War II bomber stolen from a memorial to 15 RAF airmen killed in a crash in the Cooley Mountains in Co Louth in 1942 has been returned after a social media campaign by a ...

Flying in a B-24 Liberator Was Risky Business While the plane became the most produced bomber aircraft in the war, it wasn’t without some bitter consequences for those who flew in them. Share Resize ...

The B-24 Liberator was produced in larger numbers than any other American aircraft of the Second World War, with three companies running five factories to service the production quota.

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.

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 25.

The B-24’s slab-sided fuselage earned the aircraft its nickname, the “Flying Boxcar.” The fuselage was constructed around two central bomb bays. The bomb bays were each capable of carrying ...

U.S. Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Herbert G. Tennyson was 24 when he flew a B-24 Liberator named Heaven Can Wait on a mission to bomb enemy positions in Papua, New Guinea. Witnesses on other aircraft ...