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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator
"Bill" Wheatley, Consolidated’s Chief Test Pilot, co-pilot George Newman ... the once common sight of a B-24 Liberator became increasingly rarer. The last Liberators in active duty were retired ...
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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 ... I was right behind the pilot. I called off the air speeds as we were coming in so he didn't have to watch the instruments.
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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.’
Eugene Polinsky, B-24 navigator, U.S. "Most of our operation ... gun case toward the nose of the cramped, freezing Liberator, directing the pilot to the target. When they neared the drop zone ...
York WWII vet, 100, to finally get his Purple Heart 80 years after his plane was shot down
Harold "Bud" Pressel was injured when he bailed from his B-24 after it was struck by flak over enemy lines in 1944. He's ...