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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The wreckage of a World War II B-24 bomber has been discovered in Papua New Guinea, 74 years after it was shot down during a fierce battle with Japanese forces. The crew of “Heaven Can Wait,” a B-24 D ...

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 ...

The B-24 featured a shoulder-mounted high aspect ratio Davis wing. Used on several bomber models during World War II, the Davis wing offered a lower drag coefficient than other contemporary ...

World War II pilot Bernerd Harding feels he finally has completed his mission - 65 years after his B-24 airplane was shot down over Germany. Harding, now 90 and being treated for prostate cancer, was ...

After watching the awesome clip of a Lancaster flying over London, many readers have sent links to other footage worth a look. For instance, the extremely interesting video in this post gives a ...

The wreck of a World War II U.S. B-24 bomber that plunged into the sea off Bermuda in February 1945 has been discovered by a team of researchers from the University of Delaware. The Royal Gazette ...

A North Carolina man has put a unique, historically-accurate wrap over his Tesla Cybertruck that honors the WWII bomber his grandfather piloted for 50 missions over Europe. The futuristic truck ...

Ford’s Willow Run plant began as one of the most ambitious—and troubled—industrial projects of World War II. What started as ...

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 ...