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 ...

The B-24 Liberator was the RAAF’s heavy-hitting bomber, flying deep into enemy territory with relentless force. Crewed by ...

She isn’t as pretty or as famous as the B-17, but the B-24 carried more bombs to greater distances and at higher speeds, while excelling at jobs the designers never could have imagined. The year was ...

At West Palm Beach’s Morrison Field in 1944, a young Army Air Force pilot named Adolph Komer fired up the engines of a B-24 Liberator bomber named Little Princess. His destination: Nazi-occupied ...

Was the B-24 bomber the best bomber in all of World War II? What about the B-17 or B-29? Here is the story of the B-24, in all of its World War II glory – The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was a bomber ...

It was a relatively short plane ride of about an hour and a half from Beverly Airport to Barre/Montpelier, Vt., but for World War II veteran Chet Miller, a member of the 389th Bomb Group based in ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The B-24 Liberator was employed in operations in every combat theater during World War II. Because of its great range, it was ...

“... the ultimate compliment for a simulator add-on this one – to be able to say it seems real. This one surely does.” John Allard – Mutley's Hangar ”I have ...

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 ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The B-24 Liberator was employed in operations in every combat theater during World War II. Because of its great range, it was ...