B-24 Liberator
The B-24 Liberator was a heavy bomber used by the Consolidated Aircraft. It was more reliable than its sister plane the B-17 Flying Fortress. It was quicker, had a bigger bomb load and had more weapons.
The B-25/24 Mitchell was an elite strike bomber. This beast could carry 3000 lbs (1360 kg) of bombs internally with the bomb bay, and more under the wings. The B-25/24 completed many missions at low altitude, and came equipped with many frontal guns and several turrets. The B-25 and B-24 were very similar strike bombers, with near identical payloads and armament presets though the B-24 was a stronger and more powerful aircraft. A noticeable story of a B-24 named ‘Lady Be Good’ was supposedly lost in the North-African theatre of WWII.
B-24 Liberator Media
Consolidated XB-24 in flight. *Additional Information about XB-24 : * Air Force fact sheet about the Consolidated XB-24
Nose view of a B-24D located at the National Museum of the USAF
Consolidated YB-24
Consolidated LB-30A, s/n AM260, used by Atlantic Ferry Command
LB-30A (YB-24) in RAF service
Consolidated Liberator Mk.I of 120 Squadron Coastal Command RAF, used from December 1941
AAF Antisubmarine Command (AAFAC) modifications at the Consolidated-Vultee Plant, Fort Worth, Texas in the foreground in the olive drab and white paint scheme. To the rear of this front line are partly assembled C-87 "Liberator Express Transports".
Anti-Submarine Weapons: Leigh light used for spotting U-boats on the surface at night, fitted to a Liberator aircraft of Royal Air Force Coastal Command. 26 February 1944.
B-24s bomb the Ploiești oil fields in August 1943.
15th Air Force B-24s attacking the Concordia Vega Oil refinery, Ploiești, Romania fly through flak and over the destruction created by preceding waves of bombers, May 31, 1944.
