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5 Fast Facts About The Consolidated B-24 Liberator Heavy Bomber
Despite shortcomings, the B-24 was the most-produced American wartime aircraft, with over 18,000 examples made. The Consolidated Aircraft B-24 was conceived in 1938. Its prototype first took to ...
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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down ...
(Though it would be months before Ford hit its bomber-a-month production goal.) "It was HUGE. I was completely amazed by its monstrous size, its four mighty engines," a pilot who flew the B-24 ...
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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator
The impetus for developing the B-24 came in 1938, when the US Army Air Corps sought asked the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation of San Diego, California, to build the Air Corps’ newest heavy ...
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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down ...
"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 ...
This 100-year-old was a B-24 bomber navigator -- and a Mets’ Veteran of the Game. Meet ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Preston (Moe) Plumb says that throughout his life he was conscious of a healthy lifestyle, a nutritious ...
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The secret WWII mission that had US bombers flying at treetop height deep inside Nazi ...
The B-24 Liberator was the most produced US aircraft of World War II and vital to the Allied victory. Designed for high-altitude precision bombing, the B-24s of the US Army's Eighth Air Force ...
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The US military is trying to identify dozens of airmen who didn't make it home from a ...
As he approached his target over Ploesti, his B-24 was hit by an anti-aircraft shell and caught fire. Instead of attempting an emergency landing, Baker continued leading his formation toward the ...