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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
Source: Military Factory, "The Arsenal of Democracy" "To compare a Ford V8 with a four-engine Liberator ... US aircraft production numbers intently throughout the war. The first piece of B-24 ...
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Tuskegee Airman and Legendary World War II Fighter Pilot Harry Stewart Dies at 100
Harry Stewart Jr. would survive World War II as one of only four Tuskegee Airmen with three air-to-air victories in a single ...
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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 of World War II and vital to the Allied victory. Designed for high-altitude precision bombing, the B-24s of the US Army's Eighth Air Force ...