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this and the B-24’s greater vulnerability to battle damage (the leaky fuel system was a particular problem) made the B-17 the preferred strategic bomber in the European theatre.” Despite such ...

The PV-1 bomber, which also bore four guns, flew successful missions throughout the war. North American B-25 Mitchell One of the best known airplanes of World War II, the B-25 bomber was also one ...

(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 ...

After the United States joined the war as a belligerent power in 1941, B-24 Liberators were built across the United States in massive factories and were flown by American bomber crews in Europe ...

On August 1, 1943, US Army Air Force B-24 Liberators took off from bases in Libya for an audacious raid on one of the Nazi military's most valuable resources. Operation Tidal Wave was meant to ...