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The final flight of B-24 Liberator 41-1133

Discover the story of B-24 Liberator 41-1133, which crashed during a WWII training mission in New Mexico. Today, its wreckage remains one of the world's most visited military aircraft crash sites.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The B-24 gave Allied air forces a reliable option in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was arguably the most celebrated heavy bomber of World War II.
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... Here’s What You Need to Remember: Adding even more to the ...
After watching the awesome clip of a Lancaster flying over London, many readers have sent links to other footage worth a look. For instance, the extremely interesting video in this post gives a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. POOLER, Ga. (WSAV) — The National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force is in the process of adding a new plane to its collection.