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 ...
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 ...
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The forgotten B-24 mission that changed WWII forever
In the summer of 1944, a B-24 Liberator named Extra Joker prepares for a high-risk mission over Nazi-occupied Austria. With ...
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Burning in the sky: The B-24 tragedy captured on camera
On August 23, 1944, Extra Joker and the trailing B-24 Thundermug are caught by a deadly German fighter attack. One plane ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Tucson's remarkable connection to aviation history includes the B-24 Liberator. A key U.S. bomber in World War II, American pilots and their crews trained here at Davis-Monthan.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Q: In every World War II movie I can think of, it’s always the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in the spotlight. In fact, I dare you to name me one film that features Consolidated’s B-24 Liberator, even ...
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