enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of surviving Consolidated B-24 Liberators - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving...

    The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American four-engine heavy bomber used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and other allied air forces during World War II. Of the 19,256 B-24, PB4Y-1, LB-30 and other model variants in the Liberator family produced, thirteen complete examples survive today, two of which are airworthy.

  3. Lady Be Good (aircraft) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Be_Good_(aircraft)

    Lady Be Good is a B-24D Liberator bomber that disappeared without a trace on its first combat mission during World War II.The plane, which was from 376th Bomb Group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), was believed to have been lost—with its nine-man crew—in the Mediterranean Sea while returning to its base in Libya following a bombing raid on Naples on April 4, 1943.

  4. Consolidated B-24 Liberator - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_B-24_Liberator

    The Consolidated B-24 Liberator is an American heavy bomber, designed by Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, California. It was known within the company as the Model 32, and some initial production aircraft were laid down as export models designated as various LB-30s, in the Land Bomber design category.

  5. List of surviving examples of mass-produced aircraft - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_examples...

    This is a list of surviving examples of mass-produced aircraft, specifically those that are notable solely or primarily for still existing. To illustrate, the Enola Gay is excluded from this list, but included in List of individual aircraft because it dropped the first atomic bomb .

  6. Visiting a North African cemetery unveils untold story of RI ...

    www.aol.com/visiting-north-african-cemetery...

    They trained with B-24 Liberators during the first half of 1942, flying out of MacDill Airforce Base in Tampa, Florida, and Barksdale Air Force base in Louisiana.

  7. Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PB4Y-2_Privateer

    The Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer is an American World War II and Korean War era patrol bomber of the United States Navy derived from the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.The Navy had been using B-24s with only minor modifications as the PB4Y-1 Liberator, and along with maritime patrol Liberators used by RAF Coastal Command, this type of patrol plane was proven successful.

  8. B-24 Liberator units of the United States Army Air Forces

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-24_Liberator_Units_of...

    The USAAF took delivery of its first B-24As in June 1941, although the B-24D was the first production model delivered in quantity in July 1942. B-24s were assigned to every combat Air Force; at peak inventory, the USAAF had 6,043 B-24 Liberators operating worldwide in September 1944.

  9. Atka B-24D Liberator - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atka_B-24D_Liberator

    The Atka B-24D Liberator is a derelict bomber on Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The Consolidated B-24D Liberator was deliberately crash-landed on the island on 9 December 1942, and is one of only eight surviving D-model Liberators (including partial and derelict aircraft).