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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator
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 ...
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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 ... Other supplies were loaded into the B-24's bomb bay racks and the fuselage surrounding the "Joe Hole." Each of the specially designed ...
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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 ... loaded supply containers into the plane’s bomb bay. Just before takeoff, agents known to the ...
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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 ...