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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator
While it served in virtually every operational theater of WWII, the Liberator’s post-war legacy was overshadowed by the Boing B-17 Flying Fortress, and only a handful remain in existence today.
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Airman's Remains Recovered From WWII Bomber
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that archaeologists were among an international and […] ...
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Remains of Cleveland WWII airman brought home after 80 years
World War II: 2nd LT Robert T. McCollum was assigned to the 565th bombardment squadron of the United States Air Force in the ...
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The World War II B-24 Liberator Was So Good The U.S. Built Over 18,000
The B-24 gave Allied air forces a reliable option in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. T he Consolidated B-24 ...
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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 ... so secret that the airmen themselves rarely knew where they were flying, what they were carrying, or to whom they were delivering agents ...
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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down the Nazis
Flying from Benghazi in the Libyan desert ... "We really clobbered them that day," said Bill Harvey, a bombardier on a Liberator. Airstrikes continued over the next few weeks, bookended by ...