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But even the US Army Air Force accepted the B-24, which would be named the Liberator, the design gained the interest of ...
A World War II-era U.S. Navy patrol bomber — a modified version of the U.S. Army Air Corps' B-24 Liberator heavy bomber — flew in to Palm Springs on Sunday for a weeklong visit to the Palm ...
At left, Lt. William Montgomery had been lost since his B-24 Liberator came down on land near Arundel, West Sussex, in June 1944. (Richard L. Molloy, Zachary Culpin, BNPS) ...
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – More than 74 years after his B-24 Liberator was shot down over the former Yugoslavia in World War II, Army Air Forces Sgt. Alfonso O. Duran is coming home. Duran’s ...
Notable Facts about the B-24 Liberator: In 1944, the United States produced almost 100,000 aircraft and at one point a new B-24 Liberator was ... The U.S. Navy even went on to use a ...
His B-24 Liberator was shot down over Germany in World War II. "That bothers me more than anything," said De Jarnette's surviving niece, Ginny Justice. "Just that at 24 years old, he was blown to ...
Ed Zaluski of Cicero talks about fighting in World War II as a flight engineer/top turret gunner in a B-24 Liberator. He entered the service when he was 18 and completed 30 missions in the Pacific.
The Michigan B-24 was painted by S.Sgt Sarkis Bartigian of Chelsea, Mass., who has been called the "the Michelangelo of World War II aviation art." ...
Somehow, not one of the 21 officers and crewmen aboard the Japanese Imperial Navy's Mavis aircraft saw the U.S. Navy's B-24 Liberator below ...
In 1944, as a 23-year-old flight engineer on a Navy B-24 Liberator, Robert Strong would zip through the bomber during a 16-hour mission in the South Pacific making sure the gunners had ammo and ...
A World War II-era U.S. Navy patrol bomber — a modified version of the U.S. Army Air Corps' B-24 Liberator heavy bomber — flew in to Palm Springs on Sunday for a weeklong visit to the Palm ...