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 ...

I have always enjoyed Bob Greene’s op-eds in the Journal, but I was especially attracted to “The U.S. Once Built Airplanes Quickly” (May 14) since my father was a B-24 Liberator pilot in the South ...

The B-24 Liberator had a hidden weakness that made it a death trap for its crews. This segment exposes the critical design flaw in its wings, caused by the outward folding landing gear, that led to ...

World War II pilot Bernerd Harding feels he finally has completed his mission - 65 years after his B-24 airplane was shot down over Germany. Harding, now 90 and being treated for prostate cancer, was ...

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 ...

Joseph DeSario saw aerial warfare over Europe during World War II as a top turret gunner on 30 missions on the B-24 Liberator bomber called the “Short Snorter.” The nickname of the four-engine bomber, ...

She isn’t as pretty or as famous as the B-17, but the B-24 carried more bombs to greater distances and at higher speeds, while excelling at jobs the designers never could have imagined. The year was ...

Bad-Luck Bombers: Call it a jinx. Call it bad luck. Call it the fortunes of war. On the one hand, tragedies stemming from crashes of two B-24 Liberator bombers here during World War II took the lives ...

The wreckage of a World War II B-24 bomber has been discovered in Papua New Guinea, 74 years after it was shot down during a fierce battle with Japanese forces. The crew of “Heaven Can Wait,” a B-24 D ...

As the US military was looking to expand production of Boeing's B-17 bomber in the late 1930s, Washington asked Consolidated Aircraft to start producing the plane. But after a visit to Boeing's ...

The cybertruck's wrap is a tribute to a B-24 Liberator known as Silver Babe which the owner's grandfather flew in WWII. By Patty Nieberg Published Aug 9, 2024 6:22 PM EDT A North Carolina man has put ...

Was the B-24 bomber the best bomber in all of World War II? What about the B-17 or B-29? Here is the story of the B-24, in all of its World War II glory – The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was a bomber ...