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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 ...
With more than 18,000 produced, the bomber became one of the true workhorses of the United States Army Air Forces. However, the Liberator was not fully developed when the war broke out, and yet ...
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.
A team from the University of Delaware, working in partnership with the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), recently located the wrecks of five B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft that crashed ...
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.
Lewis was piloting a B-24 Liberator aircraft on Aug. 1, 1943, when it crashed after being hit by enemy anti-aircraft fire during Operation TIDAL WAVE.