Although the aircraft was phased out before the end of the Second World War, it holds the distinction of having been bestowed the epithet of "Liberator ... a B-24 with eight crew members took ...
"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 ...
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 ... with a four-engine Liberator bomber was like ...
The epic story of a B-24 'Liberator' bomber aircraft, 'Shady Lady', that took off from Darwin, Australia, on Friday 13th August 1943, on what was at that time, the world's longest ever attempted ...
The new bomber ... 24 could still carry a larger bomb load over further distances and while flying faster than the B-17. The most widely produced variant of the Liberator, the B-24J, would carry a ...
This has divided the box with two long outer storage areas and two smaller inner storage areas. This tool box was used by the crew chief in charge of the maintenance of Consolidated B-24J Liberator ...
Suddenly, its crew spotted what they believed was a British... Fewer than two months after the battle on Dec. 28, 1943, Parish’s B-24 crashed into a hill while returning to base. The entire crew ...
s B-24H Liberator crew is pictured in May 1944 at Halesworth ... the remains of a Ford City native who piloted a crippled B-24 bomber from Paris to the edge of England during World War II ...
My brother, Sgt. Sidney, left an area where there was no fighting in Accra, Gold Coast, Africa to enlist in the Army Air Corps. He was training to become a tail gunner of a B-24 Liberator bomber when ...