The B-24 Liberator was a powerful symbol of US industrial might, with more than 18000 produced by the war's end. They flew ...
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Bomber Aircraft: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
The B-17 Flying Fortress was created amidst the rising need for strategic bombers that were fast, operational at high ...
"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 ...
U.S. long-range B-2 stealth bombers launched airstrikes targeting underground bunkers used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
China's development of the H-20 next-generation bomber could challenge U.S. dominance in strategic long-range bombers. As the ...
A 101-year-old military veteran has put his long life down to the resilience of the B-24 bomber – and never having children. Leo Magiera, from Ocala, Fla., turned 101 on Sept. 5. Raised on a 160 ...
Manlius, N.Y. -- Stanley Stanley spent his 25th birthday in the Dutch countryside, on the run from German forces that caused his B-24 Bomber to crash in occupied Holland. This was in 1944 ...
Photo courtesy the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency In mid-March, the Department of Defense announced that it had recovered the remains of a Ford City native who piloted a crippled B-24 bomber ...
While many outside the military know about bombers like the B-2 Spirit, that's only one of ... 84 MK-82 500-pound or 24 MK-84 2,000-pound bombs; 84 MK-62 500-pound or eight MK-65 2,000-pound ...
The average Ford car had some 15,000 parts. The B-24 Liberator long-range bomber had 1,550,000. One came off the line every 63 minutes. America launched more vessels in 1941 than Japan did in the ...
27 and H.B. Evans was born Sept. 2 in 1922. Evans was an engineer on a B-24 bomber, responsible for all the operational functions of the engines during flight. His crew was part of the 93rd Bomb ...
Russian fighter aircraft shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 frontline bomber and a Mi-8 helicopter over ... a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery gun and also Msta-B and D-30 howitzers were destroyed ...