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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.
The B-24M was the last large-scale production variant of the Liberator. Apart from a new tail turret, the B-24M differed little from the B-24L. The first B-24Ms were delivered in October 1944, and by the end of its production in 1945, Willow Run had built 1677; a further 124 B-24Ms to be built by Ford were cancelled before delivery. [3] [37]
Built at Ford Willow Run as B-24M-20-FO. Assigned to Wright Aeronautical Development Center for ice research. It was retired in 1953 as the last B-24 Liberator in USAF service. The aircraft was moved to Lackland AFB Museum in Texas for display in 1956. Acquired by IWM in 1999 in exchange for several other aircraft. Wears livery of 44-50493 "Dugan.
The last active USAF B-24, 44-51228 in 1952, just prior to its retirement. During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces took delivery of its first Consolidated Liberator 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 ...
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was taking over the long-range bombing mission in the Pacific theater and no new B-24 units were programmed for deployment in the Europe, the Mediterranean or in the CBI, the other theatres of the war. [10] By fall 1944 Willow Run had moved from the B-24L to the B-24M, the last Liberator to be built in significant ...
Consolidated vice president Edgar Gott was responsible for securing the company's contract to design and build the B-24 Liberator bomber. [5] The XB-24 Liberator prototype made its first flight in December 1939, and the first production order was from the French in 1940, just days before their surrender to Germany; six of these YB-24 Liberators ...
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.
On 21 April 1945 at around 0630 local time 137 B-24 bombers from the 466th Bombardment Group departed from their base at Attlebridge in Norfolk, England to bomb a railway bridge in Salzburg, Austria. Within the formation, Black Cat led the third squadron. However once the target was reached four hours later, the mission had to be abandoned due ...