At the onset of World War II in the late 1930s, the US Army Air Corps was about to enter war and requested a long-range heavy ...

The Ford team found it would need 5 miles of wire, cut into almost 3,000 pieces ranging in length from 8 inches to 32 feet, for a B-24. The ... with a four-engine Liberator bomber was like ...

"We must be the arsenal of democracy." The B-24 bomber, dubbed the Liberator, would become a mainstay of that arsenal. The hearty bomber saw service in all theaters of the war but played an ...

On Sept. 4, 1943, the Royal Canadian Air Force's B-24 liberator bomber was carrying a crew of four when it ran into problems just after takeoff, crashing into the nearby lake. J.M. Young ...

Kris Capps, [email protected] Apr 18, 2021 Apr 18, 2021 Updated Apr 19, 2021 In February 1943, a WWII B-24 Liberator Bomber crashed 30 miles south of Fairbanks, killing all seven crew members ...