"Bill" Wheatley, Consolidated’s Chief Test Pilot, co-pilot George Newman ... the once common sight of a B-24 Liberator became increasingly rarer. The last Liberators in active duty were retired ...

Harold "Bud" Pressel was injured when he bailed from his B-24 after it was struck by flak over enemy lines in 1944. He's ...

Eugene Polinsky, B-24 navigator, U.S. "Most of our operation ... gun case toward the nose of the cramped, freezing Liberator, directing the pilot to the target. When they neared the drop zone ...