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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down the Nazis
The Ford team found it would need 5 miles of wire, cut into almost 3,000 pieces ranging in length from 8 inches to 32 feet, for a B-24. The ... with a four-engine Liberator bomber was like ...
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Today in Aviation History: First Flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator
In time, the Liberator would become the most widely produced American heavy bomber ... gunners, ball turret, and a tail gunner). Additionally, there were several adaptations of the B-24 pressed ...
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The secret WWII mission that had US bombers flying at treetop height deep inside Nazi-occupied Europe
The B-24 Liberator was the most produced US aircraft ... German anti-aircraft fire, known as flak, could be trained on a bomber's position in flight. The threat of flak, fighters, and inclement ...
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78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down the Nazis
"We must be the arsenal of democracy." The B-24 bomber, dubbed the Liberator, would become a mainstay of that arsenal. The hearty bomber saw service in all theaters of the war but played an ...