He was a tail gunner with the Army Air Corps' 445th ... 27, 1944 -- a month after he completed his military service. Thirty-five B-24 Liberator bombers lifted off that day from Tibenham Airfield ...

and a tail gunner). Additionally, there were several adaptations of the B-24 pressed into service, such as the C-87 Liberator ...

In 1944, the United States produced almost 100,000 aircraft and at one point a new B-24 Liberator was constructed ... ball turret gunner, tail gunner and two waist gunners. Powered by four Pratt ...

McGahey as being credited with being a crewman on 29 bombing missions over Germany from 1942 to 1945 as a door gunner on Army Air Corps B-24 Liberator Bombers. He actually participated in 31 ...

“He was originally trained as a tail gunner in the B-24 Liberator, which is parked behind us here,” describes Charles’ son, Doug. “Somehow, his pilot on the way over got an ...

John Simanella is shown fourth from right with his crew of the "Sweet and Lowdown" B-24 bomber. Simanella was a B-24 gunner who flew ... briefing for B-24 Liberator crews of the 389th Bomb ...

After training as a gunner, Lick served in the 722nd Bomb Squadron, a unit of the 15th Air Force. He and his fellow crew members flew in a B-24 Liberator, a heavy bomber, out of Manduria ...

The last time Richard Pettit was in a B-24, he had to bail out. It was March 22, 1945, in the skies over Vienna, and Pettit, a top turret gunner ... climb aboard a B-24 Liberator once more ...

Following combat crew training crew 118 was assigned to a bright gleaming new B-24 Liberator ... to rejoin his crew and accompanied by the tail gunner, John Trisch, who was also from the north ...

Miller and his daughter, Jane Brown of Groveland, were two of the privileged passengers making this historic flight on the B-24 Liberator as ... had been a waist gunner. “Climbing into the ...

He was a tail gunner with the Army Air Corps' 445th ... 27, 1944 -- a month after he completed his military service. Thirty-five B-24 Liberator bombers lifted off that day from Tibenham Airfield ...