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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 Liberator was arguably the most celebrated heavy bomber ...
Hero pilot from NKY to be laid to rest 81 years after death in Germany during WWII
De Jarnette was killed on April 8, 1944, while serving as the pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber with the 732nd Bombardment ...
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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 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 ...
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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.
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Remains of Cleveland WWII airman brought home after 80 years
CLEVELAND (WJW) — June 20, 1944, World War II: 2nd LT ... the B-24J Liberator, he and his squadron went missing in action after their aircraft collided with another B-24 in the same formation ...
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The World War II B-24 Liberator Was So Good The U.S. Built Over 18,000
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 ...