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 ...

On May 20, 1943, a B-24 bomber of the 1014th Pilot Transition Training Squadron took off from an Army airfield in Texas and headed to Chicago. It was a miserable day for flying, let alone teaching ...

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 ...

Heaven Can Wait was hit by enemy fire off the Pacific island of New Guinea on March 11, 1944. All 11 aboard were killed.

Its mission is to honor, inspire and educate younger generations about World War II. The Commemorative Air Force brought its B-24 bomber Diamond Lil, the only and oldest four-engine plane still ...

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 ...