The B-24 gave Allied air forces a reliable option in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. T he Consolidated B-24 ...
The B-24 was designed to be the US's fastest heavy ... Leon Johnson, commander of the 44th Bomb Group, of the attack on Ploesti. "It's indescribable to anyone who wasn't there." ...
The B-24 bomber he flew — nicknamed “Heaven Can Wait” — was downed by Japanese antiaircraft fire on March 11, 1944. The wreckage burned on the surface and sank in about 200 feet of water.
The B-24 Liberator was the most produced US aircraft of World War II and vital to the Allied victory. Designed for high-altitude precision bombing, the B-24s of the US Army's Eighth Air Force ...