On Sept. 4, 1943, the Royal Canadian Air Force's B-24 liberator bomber was carrying a crew of four when it ran into problems just after takeoff, crashing into the nearby lake. J.M. Young ...

At the onset of World War II in the late 1930s, the US Army Air Corps was about to enter war and requested a long-range heavy ...

"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 ...

On the early morning hours of February 18th, 1944, the “Getaway Gertie” a B-24 Liberator Bomber, disappeared somewhere over the waters of Lake Ontario. A massive search ensued for the plane ...

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 ...