and a tail gunner). Additionally, there were several adaptations of the B-24 pressed into service, such as the C-87 Liberator ...

He was a tail gunner with the Army Air Corps' 445th ... 27, 1944 -- a month after he completed his military service. Thirty-five B-24 Liberator bombers lifted off that day from Tibenham Airfield ...

In 1944, the United States produced almost 100,000 aircraft and at one point a new B-24 Liberator was constructed ... ball turret gunner, tail gunner and two waist gunners. Powered by four Pratt ...

McGahey as being credited with being a crewman on 29 bombing missions over Germany from 1942 to 1945 as a door gunner on Army Air Corps B-24 Liberator Bombers. He actually participated in 31 ...

John Simanella is shown fourth from right with his crew of the "Sweet and Lowdown" B-24 bomber. Simanella was a B-24 gunner who flew ... briefing for B-24 Liberator crews of the 389th Bomb ...

a B-24 nose gunner during World War II, was all smiles as he walked around and then through the inside of an airworthy Consolidated B-24A Liberator, called 'Diamond Lil,' at the Air Zoo on Tuesday ...

Following combat crew training crew 118 was assigned to a bright gleaming new B-24 Liberator ... to rejoin his crew and accompanied by the tail gunner, John Trisch, who was also from the north ...

Parkinson was among the many B-24 crews with bombing missions that day. “I flew nose gunner, waist gunner, ball turret gunner,” Parkinson said. “I flew tail gunner.” The mission of ...

Looking through an old gunner's manual, he came across a picture of the object. It was part of a fuse box for a tail turret of a type found only on a World War II B- 24 Liberator bomber.

First Lieutenant Arthur Lindell was just 20 when his B-24 ... gunner, Sgt. Travis Burns was the upper gunner, S. Sgt Joseph F. Lajkowicz was the nose gunner, Sgt. Joseph D. Ryan was the right waist ...

After training as a gunner, Lick served in the 722nd Bomb Squadron, a unit of the 15th Air Force. He and his fellow crew members flew in a B-24 Liberator, a heavy bomber, out of Manduria ...

Arden Mattice, a World War II nose gunner on a B-24 Liberator, turned 100 years old last week. He was honored at theFox Cities Veterans Round Table quarterly meeting at theOutagamie County Courthouse.