B24J Liberator 8thAF USAAF Bomber
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In 1943, Lady Be Good was a new B-24D Liberator bomber that had just been assigned to the 514th Bomb Squadron of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) on
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"Strawberry Bitch" B-24D-160-CO Liberator S/N 42-72843 512th Bomb Squadron, 376th Bomb Group, 9th Air Force. Standing, L to R: • S/Sgt Walter F. Tomasoski (POW) 36194910 Gunner Vulcan, Michigan • S/Sgt Ralph G. Haberman, Jr. (POW) 31082034 Engineer West Chalmsford, Massachusetts • S/Sgt Manley S. Blackman (POW) 12131561 Waist Gunner Elmira, New York • S/Sgt Harold A. Hickok (POW) 12171879 Ball Turret Gunner Amsterdam, New York • S/Sgt John J. Kusiak (POW) 35335068 Radio Operator Akron, Ohio Kneeling, L to R: • 1LT George E. Webster (POW) O-736672 Navigator Nantiooks, Pennsylvania • 2LT Fred W. Kapche (KIA) O-683464 Co-Pilot Chicago, Illinois • 1LT Daniel P. Rice (POW) O-800405 Pilot St. James, Missouri • S/Sgt Alton L. Collier (POW) 38328253 Tail Turret Vivian, Louisiana • 2LT William T. Jones (POW) O-678534 Bombardier Bronx, New York This crew was shot down by fighters on the 19 DEC 1943 mission to Augsburg, Germany. They were flying B-24D S/N 42-41175. MACR 1607
Die B-24 von Consolidated Aircraft war ein viermotoriger schwerer Bomber und mit über 18'000 Maschinen das meistgebaute Flugzeug der USA im 2. Weltkrieg. Neben der Boeing B-17 'Flying Fortress' war die B-24 der wichtigste Horizontalbomber der USAAF. Neben ihrer Hauptfunktion als Bomber wurde die Liberator auch sehr erfolgreich zur Seeraumüberwachung und im Kampf gegen U-Boote eingesetzt. Der erste Kriegseinsatz der B-24 erfolgte im Januar 1942 beim Angriff auf Sulawesi (früher Celebes Indonesien) der erste Einsatz der Version D im Februar 1943 in Neuguinea. Die Liberator war massgeblich daran beteiligt dass sich das sogenannte Black Pit (praktisch flugzeugfreie Zone über dem Atlantik) schloss und die deutsche U-Boot-Flotte unter massiven Druck geriet. Modell im Masstab 1:48 mit 1445 Teilen 2 Figuren bedruckten Blöcken und beweglichen Elementen. Modellmasse (LxBxH): 45 x 68.5 x 13 cm
Historical military photographs of warships and aircraft from Germany United Kingdom and the United States of America USA
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First Lt. Adam Kubinciak was the pilot of a B-24 “Liberator” bomber named “Miss Liberty,” part of the 706th Bomb Squadron, 446 Bomb Group, 8th Air Force stationed at Bungay,…
On Thursday, 28 September 1944, a force of 283 Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers from the USAAF's 2nd Combat Bombardment Wing, took off from their bases in Britain and headed out across the North Sea escorted by 198 P-51 Mustang fighters. The bombers' target was the industrial city of Kassel in northern Germany. Among the bombers assigned to the raid were the aircraft of the 445th Heavy Bombardment Group. Thirty-five of the 445th's Liberators, along with the 336 men who made up their crews, took off from their base near the village of Tibenham in Norfolk. Their specific target that day was the engineering works of Henschel & Sohn which built Tiger and Panther tanks. Kassel had been bombed by the Allied air forces in the past, most notably in October 1943 when more than 500 bombers had dropped 1,800 tons of bombs creating a firestorm that had ravaged the city. The raid on 28 September 1944, however, would have a far different result. Due to a navigational error, the lead Liberator of the 445th Heavy Bombardment Group turned due east instead of east-south-east and the following thirty-five bombers missed Kassel altogether, attacking an alternative target. But there was worst was to come. The change of direction meant that the bombers lost their escorting Mustangs and on the return flight they were pounced on by 150 enemy fighters - and massacred. Within just six minutes, the 445th experienced the greatest single-day losses suffered by any group from one airfield in the history of aviation warfare. Twenty-five of the Liberators were shot down inside Germany itself; three crashed en route to the coast (two in France and one in Belgium); two made forced landings at an emergency airfield in England; and the last came to grief within sight of home. Just four of the original thirty-five B-24s landed safely back at Tibenham. The human cost was equally high. In the course of just a few minutes, 117 airmen lost their lives, including eleven who were murdered after parachuting safely to the ground. A further 121 men were taken prisoner; only ninety-eight returned to duty. In this highly moving account of the Kassel raid, the author, who lives close to the Tibenham airfield, uncovers the painful details of those terrible moments in September 1944 through the stories of those who survived one of the Second World War's most disastrous operations in the USAAF's battle against the Luftwaffe.
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American 4 engine, heavy bomber that was used in World War II.
A collection of historic pictures of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, an American four-engine long-range heavy bomber designed by Consolidated Aircraft
Historical military photographs of warships and aircraft from Germany United Kingdom and the United States of America USA
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The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American 4 engine, heavy bomber that was used in World War II.
Five Consolidated B-24 Liberators that made emergency landings in Turkey were operated by the Turkish Air Force after being repaired
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B-24J Liberator bombers, C-47 Skytrain transports, and B-29 Superfortress bombers at Kagman Field, Saipan, Mariana Islands, 1944 USAAF
