What began as a bombing mission to destroy an enemy bridge turned into a story of heroic bravery and incredible odds for ...
De Jarnette was killed on April 8, 1944, while serving as the pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber with the 732nd Bombardment ...
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.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WBKO) - One family has gotten closure after a Kentucky Army pilot who was killed during World War II went ...
My father, Verle Caple, was a navigator on a B-24 Liberator during WWII, flying multiple bombing raids from his base on Italy's Adriatic coast. His mission targets included Austria and southern ...
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 ...
2nd Lt. Robert T. McCollum and others from the 565th Bombardment Squadron were flying in a B24-J Liberator when their aircraft accidentally struck another plane and went down in the Baltic Sea on ...
While flying onboard the B-24J Liberator, he and his squadron went missing in action after their aircraft collided with another B-24 in the same formation, crashing into the Baltic Sea off the ...