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 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 ...

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 ...