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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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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down the Nazis
The first piece of B-24 was completed at Willow Run two days after the attack. But Edsel had promised that the massive bombers would take flight in ... a bombardier on a Liberator.
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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down the Nazis
On December 29, 1939, the XB-24 took its first flight - just a few months ... "We must be the arsenal of democracy." The B-24 bomber, dubbed the Liberator, would become a mainstay of that arsenal.