The B-24 gave Allied air forces a reliable option in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. T he Consolidated B-24 ...

Eighty years overdue, centenarian Harold “Bud” Pressel received a Purple Heart during a ceremony in late January at the Dallastown American Legion Hall. About a decade ago, he believed he ...

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 ...

World War II: 2nd LT Robert T. McCollum was assigned to the 565th bombardment squadron of the United States Air Force in the ...

An American pilot killed in World War II has been accounted for 80 years ... On March 11, 1944, Tennyson was the pilot onboard a B-24D Liberator bomber called "Heaven Can Wait" during a bombing ...

The Ford team found it would need 5 miles of wire, cut into almost 3,000 pieces ranging in length from 8 inches to 32 feet, for a B-24. The ... V8 with a four-engine Liberator bomber was like ...

So don’t get shot down.’ Great advice.” Polinsky (top row, second from left in wartime photo), was navigator aboard a B-24 Liberator. He’s now the last surviving member of his crew.

After nearly 80 years, the remains of US airman Robert McCollum have been found and identified in the wreckage of a WWII bomber aircraft.

The remains of U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert T. McCollum, 22, killed when his bomber crashed during World War II, were recently identified.

The B-24 featured a shoulder-mounted high aspect ratio Davis wing. Used on several bomber models during World War II, the Davis wing offered a lower drag coefficient than other contemporary ...