The impetus for developing the B-24 came in 1938 ... widely produced variant of the Liberator, the B-24J, would carry a crew of 11 (a pilot, co-pilot, navigator, bombardier, radio operator ...

The Ford team found it would need 5 miles of wire, cut into almost 3,000 pieces ranging in length from 8 inches to 32 feet, for a B-24. The ... including the navigator and flight engineer, also ...

So don’t get shot down.’ Great advice.” Polinsky (top row, second from left in wartime photo), was navigator aboard a B-24 Liberator. He’s now the last surviving member of his crew.