Thus, designing the the B-24, a bomber focused on range, payload capacity and survivability. The development of this ...

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-24 offered advantages over the B-17 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the World War II bomber Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944, the ...

The Tulsamerican, the last B-24 bomber made in Tulsa during World War II, has now been found in its entirety. Divers off the coast of Croatia, where The Tulsamerican crashed into the Adriatic Sea ...

A first lieutenant and navigator of a B-24 bomber in the United States Air Force, Plumb’s a graduate of Syracuse University, where he attended on the GI Bill. He retired from the New York City ...

An American pilot killed in World War II has been accounted for 80 years after his bomber — dubbed "Heaven Can Wait" — crashed off the coast of New Guinea, U.S. officials revealed Monday.