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 B-24 was developed from Boeing's B-17 but had a longer range, a heavier bomb load, and a higher top ... of having been bestowed the epithet of "Liberator." Despite tens of thousands of B ...

Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...

"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 B-24 Liberator was the most produced US aircraft ... On a mission codenamed Operation Carpetbagger, the 801st/492nd Bomb Group predominantly flew solo, moonlit sorties to support Resistance ...

the first prototype of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator made its first flight. In time, the Liberator would become the most widely produced American heavy bomber of WWII, with 18,188 examples being ...