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Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Leon Crane was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber when an engine malfunctioned and it crashed ...
A new playground has landed in Werribee, recognising the heroes of yesterday . Hangar Street Park, located between Estate ...
At the age of 22, 2Lt. Milton Leonard Hymes, Jr. of Savannah was killed in a B-24J Liberator crash over Nazi-occupied Poland, ...
As one of the most prolific bombers in the Allied war effort, the B-17 came to represent American air power in WWII. The B-17 pushed the limits of precision bombing technology with its innovative ...
Luftwaffe Major Heinz Baer in his FW-190 saw the bomber heading away and fired a burst into the ship, mortally wounding Spaven. The rest of the crew bailed out, and the bomber went down. All the crew ...
The Liberator is powered by four Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasps. Produced in greater numbers than any other big aero engine, this air-cooled fourteen-cylinder two-row radial was fitted to not only ...
As the 100-year-old veteran chatted with the Texas author, they were sitting next to a framed, wall-mounted photo of Butler and the other eight members of the B-24 Liberator crew that fought ...
POOLER, Ga. -- A rare B-24 Liberator is being moved from Barksdale Air Force Base to Georgia. The aircraft, which is part of World War II aviation history, will be restored and become the ...
They were nine men who comprised the crew of a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber they named “Lady Be Good.” Lady Be Good was part of the 514th Squadron of the 376th Heavy Bombardment Group, 9th U.S. Army ...
Project Recover, a non-profit, had a crew about to give up hope of finding the plane that had carried Tennyson and his crew. A video captured the first moments they laid eyes on the B-24 Liberator.
Their B-24 Liberator was shot down over a lake in the Netherlands after completing a bombing run of Osnabrück, Germany. A few crew members washed ashore and were buried; most were never recovered.
Their B-24 Liberator was shot down over a lake in the Netherlands after completing a bombing run of Osnabrück, Germany. A few crew members washed ashore and were buried; most were never recovered.