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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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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
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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Yorker's B-24 Liberator was shot down bombing Germany. See him finally get a Purple Heart
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 ...
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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.’
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.