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 ...

A morale problem for B-24 Liberator crews early in World War II was caused by unexplained in-flight explosions with no survivors. To the best of my knowledge, my crew was the first to survive the ...

But even the US Army Air Force accepted the B-24, which would be named the Liberator, the design gained the interest of Britain and France. With the fall of France in June 1940, the aircraft built ...

B-24 Liberator, set afire by heavy flak over the Weiner Neustadt aircraft plant in Austria during a bombing raid, November 2, 1943, nears a church with a 5-foot-by-13 foot hole in its fuselage by ...

Here is the story of the B-24, in all of its World War II glory – The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was a bomber that truly lived up to its name as it helped “liberate” Europe from the Nazis ...

B-24 Liberator. Flight Sim add-on from AlphaSim recreating America's top WWII bomber. News by GamesIndustry.biz Contributor Published on Oct. 10, 2008. October 11, 2008 (No Embargo) ...

AP PhotoB24 Air Force on a mission in 1944. As the US military was looking to expand production of Boeings B17 bomber in the late 1930s, Washington asked Consolidated Aircraft to start producing ...

On May 20, 1943, a B-24 bomber of the 1014th Pilot Transition Training Squadron took off from an Army airfield in Texas and headed to Chicago. It was a miserable day for flying, let alone teaching … ...

Ed Zaluski of Cicero talks about fighting in World War II as a flight engineer/top turret gunner in a B-24 Liberator. He entered the service when he was 18 and completed 30 missions in the Pacific.

Flying in a B-24 Liberator Was Risky Business. While the plane became the most produced bomber aircraft in the war, it wasn’t without some bitter consequences for those who flew in them.

It's a B-24 Liberator, owned by the Collings Foundation, and it arrives at the Western Museum of Flight in Torrance around noon on Monday. Here's the kicker: on it will be Louis Zamperini's son ...