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

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.

* Blackburn B-24 Skua ( 1937 )-single-engine, two-seat low-wing monoplane naval fighter / dive bomber

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

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.

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

A B-24 bomber emerges from a cloud of flak with its no.

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.

* Willow Run Bomber Plant, WW 2 film about production of the B-24 at the Willow Run bomber plant

The wreck of the B-24 bomber Lady Be Good — discovered north of Kufra 15 years after it was reported missing during WWII — had a less happy ending.

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.

During World War II, the Army Air Corps, later Army Air Forces, leased the field for use a training base for B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator bomber crews.

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.

To cover the Mid-Atlantic Gap that existed the British introduced a " Very Long Range " version of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber which was capable of patrolling the areas between Iceland and Greenland and attacking German submarines.

* The Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber

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.

Following the end of the war in Europe in May 1945 plans were made to transfer some of the B-17 / B-24 heavy bomber groups of Eighth Air Force to the Pacific Theater of Operations and upgrade them to B-29 Superfortress Very Heavy ( VH ) bomb groups.

* F-7 Liberator, a U. S. reconnaissance version of the B-24 bomber

On 18 September 1945, a B-24 Liberator bomber crashed on the southern edge of Potton Wood.

* June 6 – Four U. S. Army Forces B-24 Liberator bombers led by Major General Clarence L. Tinker take off from Midway to attack the Japanese bomber base on Wake Island.

Palance's rugged face, which took many beatings in the boxing ring, was said to have become disfigured while bailing out of a burning B-24 Liberator bomber during a training flight over southern Arizona ( where Palance was a student pilot ).

By 1945, Albuquerque ’ s flying training field had turned out 5, 719 bombardiers and 1, 750 regular pilots for the B-24 bomber alone.

On the same day, a lone B-24 joined a bomber formation from the 44th Bomb Group.

However, at about 15: 00 on 1 March, the crew of a patrolling B-24 Liberator heavy bomber spotted the convoy.

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.

* 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.

After a brief service as a pilot of C-54 Skymaster cargo planes into Karachi, and over " The Hump " to Kunming after VE Day, he ferried bombers ( B-24 Liberators and B-29 Superfortresses ) from the U. S. mainland to Tinian in the Mariana Islands and into other bases in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

* 2d Lt. George Olesen ( cartoonist ), B-24 pilot 7th Bomb Group

He entered the construction business, then served as a B-24 pilot in World War II, and eventually headed JELCO ( later EMKO ), a major contracting company in Utah.

Shortly after graduating from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, Lounsberry served in World War II as a U. S. Air Force B-24 pilot in the Asiatic Pacific Theater, where he received several military honors including the Distinguished Flying Cross, four Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Philippine Liberation Medal.

The B-24 lost altitude rapidly after the pilot was killed, but the wounded copilot regained controlled flight, preventing a stall by putting it into a steep glide to maintain airspeed.

The base began as a pilot transition school for the B-26 Marauder before becoming one of the first B-24 transition schools in operation.

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.

The story of Louie Zamperini who flew in a B-24 ; and how he survived crashing in the Pacific, set adrift for 47 days in the Pacific, and more than 2 years in Japanese POW camps.

The equally-important B-24 first flew in 1939.

After being repaired in October 1944, the United States Army Air Force Seventh Air Force used the airfield as a base for the 11th Bombardment Group, which flew B-24 Liberator bombers from the station until being moved to Okinawa in July 1945.

In 1944 and 1945, B-24 long-range bombers of the 98th Heavy Bomb Group attached to the 15th U. S. Army Air Force were based in Lecce, from where the crews flew missions over Italy, the Balkans, Austria, Germany and France.

The group flew antisubmarine patrols over the eastern Gulf waters until June 1942 when the group was transitioned into a B-24 Liberator Operational Training Unit and assigned to II Bomber Command at Gowen Field, Idaho.

The unit flew a mixture of B-17, B-24, B-25, B-29, F-2, F-9, F-10, and A-20 aircraft equipped with cartographic cameras.

In 1942, the United States Army Air Force 7th Bombardment Group flew B-24 Liberator bombers from the airport on combat missions over Burma.

After completing this course, he flew combat missions in Europe as a Consolidated B-24 Liberator navigator.

The 404th Bombardment Squadron flew B-24 Liberator heavy bombers along with one Beechcraft AT-7, which was used for navigator training.

He flew for thirty bombing missions over Germany on board a B-24 Liberator during World War II.

His first assignment after flight training was at Barksdale Field, Louisiana, where, as a member of the 344th Bombardment Squadron of the 93d Bombardment Group, he flew Consolidated B-24 Liberator.

In August 1942 he flew with the 93d Bombardment Group to England, where it became the first B-24 group to join the Eighth Air Force.

The group flew B-24 Liberator aircraft with a tail code of " Circle B ".

The 814th flew B-24 Liberator aircraft acquired from a disbanded anti-submarine warfare group.

The squadrons flew agents and supplies into southern France with B-24 Liberators that had all armament removed except in the top and tail turrets.