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The secret WWII mission that had US bombers flying at treetop height deep inside Nazi-occupied Europe
The B-24 Liberator was the most produced US aircraft of World War II and vital to the Allied victory. Designed for high-altitude precision bombing, the B-24s of the US Army's Eighth Air Force ...
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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator
On this day in aviation history, December 29, 1939, the first prototype of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator made its first flight. In time, the Liberator would become the most widely produced ...
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‘You were an old man if you were still there at 23. If we let it bother us, it would destroy us. You just had to go on.’
Polinsky (top row, second from left in wartime photo), was navigator aboard a B-24 Liberator ... he arrived in England for duty with the Eighth Air Force, his crew was assigned to stripped ...