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 ...

Facing devastating head-on attacks, the US Army Air Forces experimented with grotesquely overarmed B-17 and B-24 gunships designed to shield bomber formations. This episode explores the YB-40, XB-41, ...

Given the B-24's low ground clearance, the turret was retracted into the body of the plane during takeoff and landing. "There were a lot of people who could not fly that position," said Bertolino, ...

POOLER, Ga. (WTOC) - Major news from the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, the re-location of an extraordinary artifact of World War II aviation history. A B-24 Liberator from the collection of the ...

UD’s Mark Moline involved in Project Recover’s effort to locate downed B-24 plane in Papua New Guinea On March 11, 1944, a B-24D Liberator plane from the United States Army Air Forces named Heaven Can ...

POOLER, Ga. -- A rare B-24 Liberator is being moved from Barksdale Air Force Base to Georgia. The aircraft, which is part of World War II aviation history, will be restored and become the centerpiece ...

Apart from changing the global political landscape and churning out tech that is relevant till date, World War II played a crucial role in taking aviation to new heights. The aviation industry in the ...

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.

The industrial might of the American economy during World War II earned its reputation though hard work, innovation, and a continuous chain of millions of personnel, vehicles, aircraft, equipment, and ...