A commercial artist named Brinkman, from Chicago, was responsible for the zodiac-themed nose art of the B-24 Liberator-equipped 834th Bomb Squadron, based at RAF Sudbury, England.

A boxing kangaroo wearing a slouch hat painted on the nose of a Royal Air Force | RAF B-24 Liberator bomber flown by a Royal Australian Air Force | RAAF crew based in Agra, India, c. 1943-44.

File: 34bg-b24. jpg | Consolidated B-24 Liberator nose turret

Consolidated Aircraft is well known for the PBY Catalina flying boat and the B-24 Liberator bomber.

* The novel Face of a Hero ( 1950 ) tells the story of a B-24 crew operating from an airport in Puglia, Italy in 1944 ; it is based on the real experiences of its author, Louis Falstein, who had been a tail gunner on a USAAF B-24.

* The B-24 is featured in the classic novel Goodbye to Some by Gordon Forbes, a former pilot, who seems to know the foibles of the aircraft.

The Calanshio Sand Sea is the site of the missing World War II B-24 Liberator " Lady Be Good ".

The South Country is home to a series of six difficult peaks, namely Mount Phillips, Comanche Peak, Big Red, Bear Mountain, Black Mountain, and Schaefers Peak, as well as Trail Peak, which is popular for its relative ease, its nearness to Beaubien, and the wreckage of the crash of a B-24 bomber in 1942 near its summit.

* January 2 – Japanese antiaircraft guns shoot down three United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators over Maloelap during a daylight raid, forcing B-24s to switch to night raids in which their bombing is much less accurate.

Recently added to the museum is a B-24 Liberator, which was moved to Hendon from Cosford.

However, the base is home to the Eighth Air Force Museum, which hosts static displays of numerous aircraft including a Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan bomber, B-24, B-17, P-51, SR-71, F-111, and multiple versions of the B-52.

A crashed B-24 Liberator on Atka is one of the 9 sites in the monument.

Equally famous is the B-24 Liberator, a heavy bomber which, like the Catalina, saw action in both the Pacific and European theaters.

During World War II, Altman flew more than 50 bombing missions as a crewman on a B-24 Liberator with the 307th Bomb Group in Borneo and the Dutch East Indies.

Even before Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Air Corps leaders started to increasingly utilize the airfield, sending Boeing B-29 Superfortresses and Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers and Douglas B-18 Bolo which were used both for training and observation missions.

An American B-24 Liberator bomber crashed onto the château lawn on June 22, 1944.

On May 27, 1944, a B-24, flying a night training mission out of Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee, Massachusetts, crashed into a cliff on the side of the range, killing all ten crewmen.

The episode was based on the discovery of the B-24 Liberator four engine bomber Lady Be Good and her crew's remains, which had crash-landed at night, deep in the Libyan desert after running out of fuel, while returning from a WWII bombing mission over fascist Italy.

A secondary target of the Oil Campaign of World War II, Münster was bombed on October 25, 1944 by 34 diverted B-24 Liberators during a mission to a nearby primary target, the Scholven / Buer synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen.

Piccard developed a frost-free window, that was used on this flight and later by the Navy and Air Force in the B-24 Liberator or B-26 Marauder.

The novel describes in detail the raids of the B-24 bombers on Romania, Yougoslavia, northern Italy, Southern France and Germany.

on the B-24

*" Look Out Hitler, Here Comes The Flood ," Popular Science, 1943 – very large and detailed article on the manufacturing of the B-24

By 1944, students on gunnery missions fired from four-engined B-17, B-24 Liberator and B-40 Flying Fortress gunship aircraft while two-engine aircraft towed targets and single-engine tactical aircraft simulated attacks on the bombers.

General Andrews organized and commanded the General Headquarters, Air Force ( 1935 – 1939 ), and at the time of his death on 3 May 1943 in the crash of a B-24 Liberator in Iceland, he was Commanding General, United States Forces, European Theater of Operations.

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the need for bombardiers was evident, soon after an announcement was made by Lieutenant Colonel Isaiah Davies, Commanding Officer of Midland Army Air Field ( MAAF ), that Midland AAF would be used exclusively to train bombardiers in the AT-11 Kansan for eventual assignment to bomber aircraft such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell, B-26 Marauder and B-29 Superfortress.

Bomber Command used not only British aircraft but also American-built machines such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator ( although less than 2 % of Bomber Command's wartime sorties were flown by US-built aircraft ); in the case of the former they were the first to be put into battle and gave useful information on improvements before the US entered the war.

The American innovation of the manned, ventrally-mounted Sperry ball turret on the B-17 and B-24 bombers was a virtually self-contained defensive weapon system that rotated a full 360 degrees horizontally with a 90-degree elevation, and its pair of M2 Browning machine guns had an effective range of one thousand yards.

Staffel of StG 2 in North Africa, the only known artwork on an Axis-flown combat aircraft that could have rivaled the length of that on " The Dragon and his Tail " B-24.

At 8. 00am on 12 August 1944 a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber belonging to the United States Army Air Forces 392nd Bombardment Group ( Heavy ) from RAF Wendling crashed next to Maxwells Farm (), near Cheshunt killing all ten crew.

Newly-arrived Fourteenth Air Force B-24 Liberators on the line at Kunming Airport, China on 6 September 1944.

In 1941 Sewart Air Force Base was established and served as a B-24 advanced training facility.

Many pilots slept on cots waiting for takeoff as the B-24 rolled off the assembly line at Ford's Willow Run facility.

Operated by the Ford Motor Company, the Ford Willow Run manufacturing plant produced 8, 685 B-24 Liberator heavy bombers before its closure in April 1945, the largest number at any B-24 facility in the country.

During World War II, the facility was known as Liberal Army Airfield and was used as a United States Army Air Forces Second Air Force B-24 Liberator training base from 1943 to 1945.

The 98 RANW can be traced to the World War II 98th Bombardment Group, which was a B-24 Liberator heavy bomb group that fought in North Africa and Italy.

** B-24 Liberators of the U. S. Army Air Forces 404th Bombardment Squadron make the longest bombing mission flown in the North Pacific Area during World War II, flying a 2, 700-mile ( 4, 348-km ) round trip from Shemya to attack the Japanese base at Kruppu in the Kurile Islands.

During World War II, the airport was known as Windsor Field and was intensively used by the Royal Air Force in the delivery flights of US-built fighter and bomber aircraft such as the Boeing B-17 and Consolidated B-24 bombers, and the Curtiss P-40 fighter from the aircraft manufacturers to the North African and European Theatres of War.

During July 1945, when the final Allied offensive of the Borneo Campaign took place as Operation Oboe Two, the Battle of Balikpapan, 1TAF reached a strength of some 25, 000 personnel, augmented by the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber squadrons of No. 82 Wing transferring in from North Western Area Command.

* Hangar ; B-24 Liberator: Warsaw airdrops, information videos ;

* 1944 – Freckleton Air Disaster – A United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, England killing 61 people.

* 1939 – First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator.

Heading to a rendezvous with Vichy French ships under Red Cross banners, the U-boats were attacked by a U. S. Army B-24 Liberator bomber.

During World War II, notable examples of US aircraft with turbochargers include the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt.

* November 2 – A USAF squadron, including B-24 Liberators, intercepts many Luftwaffe patrols off the coast of Oran, Algeria.

* August 1 – Operation Tidal Wave: 177 B-24 Liberator bombers from the U. S. Army Air Force bomb oil refineries at Ploieşti, Romania.

This factory was set up in order to spread out strategic aircraft production and rented to Convair during the war to produce B-24 Liberator bombers.

USAAF B-24 Liberator bombers of the Seventh Air Force and the 331 Marine Scout Bombing Squadron operated from Tuvalu.

During World War II, Matthau served in the U. S. Army Air Forces with the Eighth Air Force in England as a B-24 Liberator radioman-gunner, in the same 453rd Bombardment Group as James Stewart.

On 22 June of the same year, nine B-24 Liberators of the United States Army Air Forces used Azon glide bombs against the Samur Bridge ; escort was provided by 41 of 43 P-51 Mustangs.

The design was a development of the C104, but with the delta wing raised to the top of the fuselage allowing for simplified structure, easier access to the engines and the weapons bay in the belly, as well as a weapons bay larger than that of the B-24 Liberator or Lancaster bombers.

During World War II an American squadron of B-24 Liberator bombers of the 834th Squadron ( H ), 486th Bomb Group ( H ), 8th Air Force was based at RAF Sudbury.

Image: Willow Run Factory. jpg | B-24 Liberators under construction at Ford's Willow Run line during World War II

The host unit at Clovis AAF was the 16th Bombardment Wing, a training unit for Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber crews for Europe, and later becoming a major training / conversion base for the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers heading to the Pacific Theater.

* 302d Bombardment Group ( 19 January-17 December 1943 )( B-24 ) Served as an operational training unit.