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 offered advantages over the B-17 ...

They were dual-mounted in turrets on the nose, roof, and underneath in the cramped ball turret. Handling one of the most dangerous jobs in the Air Force, the B-24 could retract the turret inside ...

For instance, the extremely interesting video in this post gives a previously unseen view at the Consolidated B-24J Liberator. The B-24 was among ... the retractable ball turret; the footage ...

the nose itself featured a nose turret with two .30-caliber (and later .50-caliber) machine guns. Beneath the B-24 was a ball turret, within which a crewmember could sit, providing defensive ...

The flight crew, including the navigator and flight engineer, also manned the bomber's machine-gun turrets, which were set in the nose ... "I was a ball turret gunner on a B-24 Liberator.

a B-24 nose gunner during World War II, was all smiles as he walked around and then through the inside of an airworthy Consolidated B-24A Liberator, called 'Diamond Lil,' at the Air Zoo on Tuesday ...

Ed Zaluski of Cicero talks about fighting in World War II as a flight engineer/top turret gunner in a B-24 Liberator. He entered the service when he was 18 and completed 30 missions in the Pacific.

Watson, a 24-year-old front turret gunner in the 487th Bomb Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces, climbed into a B-24 Liberator nicknamed Our Baby. On that day in Lavenham, England, the plane was ...

*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 ...

*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 ...