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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator
The new bomber design, which was internally designated as the Model 32 ... even the US Army Air Force accepted the B-24, which would be named the Liberator, the design gained the interest of ...
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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 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 ...
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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 ...