Vintage Aviation News on MSN11d
Bomber Aircraft: Consolidated B-24 Liberator, The Loyal "Lumbering Lib"
The B-24 Liberator was a powerful symbol of US industrial might, with more than 18000 produced by the war's end. They flew ...
Remains of WWII soldier to be buried in Philip
A U.S. Army Air Forces pilot who was killed in action during World War II is finally returning home to be laid to rest.
History: The Impact Of US B-17 Flying Fortresses In The WWII European Air War
An iconic symbol of American airpower, the B-17 was arguably the most impactful bomber in Western Europe during WWII.
The Baltimore Sun18d
‘It’s a long-awaited homecoming’: Burial set for WWII airman from Port Deposit
John Allen Tarbert, an American airman from Port Deposit in Cecil County who served during World War II. Tarbert, 24, was a gunner on a B-24 bomber that was shot down over Germany by the Luftwaffe ...
The Washington Post28d
Terror in the skies over Germany, and a lost father now found
As the nine men aboard the B-24, nicknamed Mairzy Doats ... was lost in one of the deadliest American air battles of World War II, the Defense Department announced that unknown remains recovered ...