Key Points - The Consolidated B-24 Liberator, a key Allied heavy bomber in World War II, was the most produced combat aircraft in history (18,482 built). -Making its maiden flight in 1939, the B-24 ...

In the wake of World War 2, the United States emerged as an industrial powerhouse after supplying its own military and its ...

Cover title: The B-24 Liberator. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!86470~!0#focus ...

All of famed B-24, The Tulsamerican, found in Adriatic; survivor remembers crash The bomber is in two halves, split by the impact of its World War II crash into the Adriatic Sea.

This 1943 photo shows 10 of the 11 members of the crew of the World War II B-24 bomber, Heaven Can Wait, that went down in the waters of Hansa Bay, Papua New Guinea in 1944, including Staff Sgt.

Congress reached a compromise, approving just over half of the requested number of planes to be built over the next five years. However, the tide of war was in Germany's favor, and by 1940, the Nazis ...

Reprint of the 1942 ed. with the addition of Development of the B-24 "Liberator" by Leo J. Kohn. Cover title: Flight manual for B-24 Liberator. https://siris ...

KEARNEY — When he left the South Pacific as a U.S. Army Air Forces co-pilot in 1946, Bernie Wimmer thought he’d never get to ride in a B-24 bomber again. It took a while, but he was wrong. Last week, ...

Sign up for the Gazette's morning newsletter and get essential news each day. SOUTH HADLEY — Clyde Dechert came from his Bellingham, Washington home to stand on the ...

March 11, 1944: Bomber down The Army Air Forces plane nicknamed Heaven Can Wait was a B-24 with a cartoon pin-up angel painted on its nose and a crew of 11 on its final flight. They were on a mission ...