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

Current examples include the strategic nuclear-armed strategic bombers: B-2 Spirit, B-52 Stratofortress, Tupolev Tu-95 ' Bear ', Tupolev Tu-22M ' Backfire '; historically notable examples are the: Gotha G, Avro Lancaster, Heinkel He-111, Junkers Ju 88, B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-29 Superfortress, and Tupolev Tu-16 ' Badger '.

* 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.

Nauru Island under attack by B-24 Liberator bombers of the Seventh Air Force

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.

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

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.

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.

Consolidated B-24 Liberator | B-24 Very Long Range Liberators at the Consolidated-Vultee Plant, Fort Worth, 1943

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Sperry also was the creator of the Ball Turret Gun that was mounted under the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, as commemorated by the film Memphis Belle and the poem The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.

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

In 1944, a B-24 " Liberator " airplane was christened " The Chester and Lili Morris " in honor of him and his wife, and their contributions to the United States war effort.

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.

The Short Shetland and Short Seaford were rejected as replacements for the B-24 Liberator.

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

Image: Zadar Apron with a BAF B-24 Liberator ( background ). jpg | Zadar flightline with a BAF B-24 Liberator ( background ).

A Leigh Light fitted under the wing of a Consolidated B-24 Liberator | Consolidated Liberator aircraft of the Royal Air Force Coastal Command, 26 February 1944

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

Image: Replika liberatora. jpg | Replica of B-24 shot-down while supplying Warsaw

In July 1944, Felman's B-24 was hit by German ME-109s and 10 of the eleven-man crew bailed out from 18, 000 feet over the Yugoslav hills.

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.

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 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 large gap in the middle of the Atlantic that had been unreachable by aircraft was closed by long range B-24 Liberator aircraft.

Online by mid-1943, the new plant produced hundreds of Consolidated B-24 Liberators and Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers.

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.

On 7 April, Eighth Air Force dispatched thirty-two B-17 and B-24 groups and fourteen Mustang groups ( the sheer numbers of attacking Allied aircraft were so large in 1945 that they were now counted by the group ) to targets in the small area of Germany still controlled by the Nazis, hitting the remaining airfields where the Luftwaffe jets were stationed.

A total of around 2, 110 bombers were lost on operations by its fifteen B-24 and six B-17 bombardment groups, while its seven fighter groups claimed a total of 1, 836 enemy aircraft destroyed.

The island was bombed on five occasions in November and December 1943 by B-24 Liberator bombers of the USAAF 7th Air Force.

* April 20 – Led personally by the commander of the Seventh Air Force, Major General Willis H. Hale, 22 U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators from Funafuti bomb and photograph Nauru.

* October 23 – 45 Fifth Air Force B-24 Liberators raid Rabaul, escorted by 47 P-38 Lightnings.

* October 25 – 61 Fifth Air Force B-24 Liberators raid Rabaul, escorted by 50 P-38 Lightnings.

* October 29 – Between 37 and 41 Fifth Air Force B-24 Liberators, escorted by between 53 and 75 P-38 Lightnings, drop 115 tons ( 104, 327 kg ) of bombs on Vunakanau airfield at Rabaul, claiming 45 Japanese aircraft shot down or destroyed on the ground ; the Japanese admit a loss of seven of their planes shot down and three destroyed on the ground.

The U. S. Army Air Forces Fifth Air Force follows up with a strike by 27 B-24 Liberators escorted by 67 P-38 Lighntings on Rabaul town and its wharves.

* November 13 – American preparatory bombing for the amphibious landings in the Gilbert Islands begins with a strike by 17 U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators against Japanese forces on Betio island at Tarawa Atoll.