Key Points - The Consolidated B-24 Liberator, a key Allied heavy bomber in World War II, was the most produced combat aircraft in history (18,482 built). -Making its maiden flight in 1939, the B-24 ...

A morale problem for B-24 Liberator crews early in World War II was caused by unexplained in-flight explosions with no survivors. To the best of my knowledge, my crew was the first to survive the ...

Ypsilanti (CBS Detroit) - The B-24 Liberator was the most produced heavy bomber of the war. Now, a group of Veterans has gotten together to restore one of the last remaining ones in existence. "It's a ...

Readers continue to tell me they find personal incidents in aviation interesting. So I dug into my notes and logbooks of 40 years of flying and will offer some more personal experiences. I’ve been ...

Bad-Luck Bombers: Call it a jinx. Call it bad luck. Call it the fortunes of war. On the one hand, tragedies stemming from crashes of two B-24 Liberator bombers here during World War II took the lives ...

I have always enjoyed Bob Greene’s op-eds in the Journal, but I was especially attracted to “The U.S. Once Built Airplanes Quickly” (May 14) since my father was a B-24 Liberator pilot in the South ...

As the US military was looking to expand production of Boeing's B-17 bomber in the late 1930s, Washington asked Consolidated Aircraft to start producing the plane. But after a visit to Boeing's ...

POOLER, Ga. (WTOC) - Major news from the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum, the re-location of an extraordinary artifact of World War II aviation history. A B-24 Liberator from the collection of the ...