5 Fast Facts About The Consolidated B-24 Liberator Heavy Bomber
B-24 had B-17 as its progenitor Public perception has it that the B-24 was not a major improvement on the B-17. It was in 1938 that the United States Air Arms Corps (USAAC) reques ...
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Hornell WW2 soldier's lost plane recovered in the Netherlands. Researchers seek family.
A bomber co-piloted by a Hornell native, shot down in World War II, has been discovered in a lake and researchers want to ...
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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down the Nazis
The B-24 was designed to be the US's fastest heavy ... "We really clobbered them that day," said Bill Harvey, a bombardier on a Liberator. Airstrikes continued over the next few weeks, bookended ...
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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 ...
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War Production
The average Ford car had some 15,000 parts. The B-24 Liberator long-range bomber had 1,550,000. One came off the line every 63 minutes. America launched more vessels in 1941 than Japan did in the ...