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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. At its inception, the B-24 was a modern ...
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. Eight of ...
Allied Aircraft: Consolidated Liberator GR Mk VI, KG869 'ZZ-K', of No. 220 Squadron Royal Air Force. The RAF was the first user as initial deliveries of B-24 Liberators to Royal Air Force were made in early 1941 and included some planes originally intended for France. These 26 planes were named Liberator B.Mk I and were basically B-24As.
Consolidated B-24D-160-CO Liberator 42-72815 "Strawberry Bitch" on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. The B-24D on display flew combat missions from North Africa in 1943–1944, and was eventually sent to storage after the war to Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona. In 1959 the aircraft was taken out of storage and flown to ...
17 February 1943. B-24D-53-CO, 42-40355, c/n 1432, crashed at Tucson Municipal AirportNo. 2, Tucson, Arizona.[12] Of the 34 on board, 6 Consolidated Aircraftemployees riding as passengers were killed and several others were injured. The damaged airframe was subsequently modified into the first C-87 Liberator Express.
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).
Serial. 42-95592[1] History. In service. – 21 April 1945. Fate. Shot down over Germany. Black Cat was a Consolidated B-24J-1-FO Liberator [note 1] aircraft and the last American bomber to be shot down over Germany in World War II. [2] It was one of thousands of B-24s produced by the Ford Motor Company at its Willow Run production plant.
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.