Only a minute had passed after 2nd Lt. Woodrow Browning dropped his bombs over an oil refinery in Blechhammer, Germany, when an 88 mm anti-aircraft shell ripped through his B-24 Liberator, knocking ...

This is the forgotten history and unknown stories of the B-24 Liberator, what you likely never knew about the bomber that ...

Howard Ewing Wyss was raised the last of five children on a small farm near Russellville in Moniteau County. Following his graduation from high school in nearby California in 1935, he spent the next ...

Second Lieutenant (Sep.) Ed Metcalf served in the Army Air Corps from 1942 - 1946 during World War II. He is a former B-24 Liberator bombardier and navigator who flew 29 missions over 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 ...

Both the B-17 Flying Fortress and the B-24 Liberator carried heavy bomb loads over Europe. Postwar reports revealed one bomber was nearly 80% more effective in combat. From accuracy to survival rates, ...

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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 ...

“Diamond Lil,” one of only two B-24 “Liberator” World War II bombers still in existence, will land at noon Monday at the North Platte Regional Airport east of town on U.S. Highway 30. The ...