Business Insider India2 年
78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight - here's how it helped bring down ...
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 plane's components were 85% aluminum alloy and 13% steel.
The National Interest9 天
The World War II B-24 Liberator Was So Good The U.S. Built Over 18,000
The B-24 featured a shoulder-mounted high aspect ratio Davis wing. Used on several bomber models during World War II, the Davis wing offered a lower drag coefficient than other contemporary ...
The Advocate (Newark) on MSN2 天
Alexandria native, 100, survived 'miraculous' B-24 flight across Adriatic Sea in World War II
Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library continues Staff Sgt. Robert "Bob" Hickman's story of survival in World War II.
Business Insider4 年
The secret WWII mission that had US bombers flying at treetop height deep inside Nazi ...
The B-24 Liberator was the most produced US aircraft of World War II and vital to the Allied victory. Designed for high-altitude precision bombing, the B-24s of the US Army's Eighth Air Force ...