Source: Military Factory, "The Arsenal of Democracy" "To compare a Ford V8 with a four-engine Liberator ... B-24 to fly him to the meeting of Allied leaders at Casablanca in early 1943. Its bomb ...

the B-24 could still carry a larger bomb load over further distances and while flying faster than the B-17. The most widely produced variant of the Liberator, the B-24J, would carry a crew of 11 ...