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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator
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 ...
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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down the Nazis
"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 ...
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‘He was never forgotten’
John Holoka Jr.'s B-24H Liberator crew is pictured in May 1944 at Halesworth ... of a Ford City native who piloted a crippled B-24 bomber from Paris to the edge of England during World War ...