Of the many aircraft in which airmen fought their way to receive the Medal of Honor, alive or posthumously, only one flew the Consolidated PB4Y-1, a U.S. Navy variant of the B-24 Liberator.

The first hurricane/typhoon hunter plane loss occurred on October 1, 1945, when a Navy PB4Y-2 (BuNo 59415) went down in a Category 1 typhoon over the South China Sea. Pilot Lt(jg) Ralph Cook and ...

Ray Charnley, 103, of Ocala, charted his own course during World War II as a naval aviator. His service included being a ...