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Sole Survivor aired on January 9, 1970, and was the first of made-for-TV movies broadcast on CBS, and produced by CBS-owned Cinema Center Films (the company's short-lived foray into feature film production). Sole Survivor was released in Region B/2 in a DVD/Blu-ray dual-disk set on March 14, 2016. [6]
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.
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.
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 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 ...
Beautiful Dreamer is loosely based on the lives of the crew of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator Starduster. Captain Willis Miller was a B-24 pilot in World War II who was a member of the 392 Bomb Group, 577th/579th Squadron, 2nd Division, of the 8th Air Force .
On the afternoon of August 24, 1944, an American B-24J-135-CO Liberator bomber, serial number 42-11107 and nicknamed Wham!Bam! Thank You Ma'am, commanded by 2nd Lt. Norman J. Rogers Jr, was seriously damaged by German antiaircraft fire while taking part in an attack on an airfield in Hanover and the entire crew bailed out near Hutterup.
However, Hos had miscalculated the size of the cloud opening, and the B-24 soon became engulfed by the clouds, putting them in IFR conditions (visibility less than 3 miles (4.8 km)). Suddenly, the No. 1 engine failed, and the vacuum selector valve froze. Within seconds, the B-24 entered a spin from 20,000 feet (6,100 m) towards the ground.