The B-24 Liberator was a powerful symbol of US industrial might, with more than 18000 produced by the war's end. They flew ...

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress was developed after the Second World War, and only entered service with the U.S. Air Force in ...

On Sept. 4, 1943, the Royal Canadian Air Force's B-24 liberator bomber was carrying a crew of four when it ran into problems ...

Depending on the model, the B-24 was manned by a crew of between ... "The Arsenal of Democracy" "To compare a Ford V8 with a four-engine Liberator bomber was like matching a garage with a ...

"We must be the arsenal of democracy." The B-24 bomber, dubbed the Liberator, would become a mainstay of that arsenal. The hearty bomber saw service in all theaters of the war but played an ...

He and his fellow crew members flew in a B-24 Liberator, a heavy bomber, out of Manduria, Italy. By the time he deployed, the 15th Air Force was already famous for bombing oil fields at Ploesti ...

The twin-engine Ju 88 ended up as the second-most produced bomber of all time, with 15,183 airframes built; these numbers were only exceeded by America’s Consolidated B-24 Liberator four-en ...

On the early morning hours of February 18th, 1944, the “Getaway Gertie” a B-24 Liberator Bomber, disappeared somewhere over the waters of Lake Ontario. A massive search ensued for the plane ...

The average Ford car had some 15,000 parts. The B-24 Liberator long-range bomber had 1,550,000. One came off the line every 63 minutes. America launched more vessels in 1941 than Japan did in the ...

Kris Capps, [email protected] Apr 18, 2021 Apr 18, 2021 Updated Apr 19, 2021 In February 1943, a WWII B-24 Liberator Bomber crashed 30 miles south of Fairbanks, killing all seven crew members ...