One of the most recognizable aircraft of World War II, the B-24 saw action around the world and produced by the thousands. [.

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 ...

Bob Lick, who lives in De Pere, was a waist-gunner in a B-24 Liberator and flew perilous missions over Germany.

Polinsky (top row, second from left in wartime photo), was navigator aboard a B-24 Liberator ... loaded supply containers into the plane’s bomb bay. Just before takeoff, agents known to the ...

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 ... with a four-engine Liberator bomber was like ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...