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 ...

The B-24 was among the U.S. most famous heavy bombers of WWII: at +18,400 units, it ended the conflict as the most produced heavy bomber in history and was the only to deploy U.S.’ first ...

Handling one of the most dangerous jobs in the Air Force, the B-24 could retract the turret inside, a luxury not afforded to crews of other bombers. The aircraft's first test was in the Atlantic.

The B-24 gave Allied air forces a reliable option in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. ... machine guns. Beneath the B-24 was a ball turret, within which a crewmember could sit, ...

Ask John Watson how he survived as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany, and he'll shake his head. "You never stopped and thought about dying,'' said Watson, 94. "If you did that, it would be all ...

Joseph DeSario saw aerial warfare over Europe during World War II as a top turret gunner on 30 missions on the B-24 Liberator bomber called the “Short Snorter.” The nickname of the four-engine ...

Aerial gunner Bob Walton was raked by shards of his B-24 turret when it took a hit over China in World War II. On Memorial Day, the Morris Plains resident remembers his pal Bobby, who never made ...

Kush, who lives in Key Largo, Fla., was a ball turret gunner on a B-24 that flew bombing missions over Austria, France and Germany. National. WWII Vet: Happy To Leave 'Worst Place You Can Be' ...

Mazikowski would do his shooting as a ball-turret gunner on a B-24. Assigned to the 98th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, based in southern Italy, he and his crew would bomb targets in north Italy and ...